tuft

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
2. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
3. A small clump of trees or bushes.
4. (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
5. (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

Verb

1. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
2. (transitive) To form into tufts.
3. (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
4. (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.

Concetti

ciuffo

cespo

ciocca

🔒

mazzo

ciniglia

felpa

infiocchettare

pennacchio

trapuntare

zolla

impennacchiare

rappa

macchia d'alberi

nappina dorata

a forma di ciuffo

ornare di ciuffi

fiocco

🙇

fregio

ciambella

sinonimi

bunch

cluster

wisp

clump

tassel

tussock

lock

🔒

crest

bundle

grove

scrap

pinch

panache

forelock

fire up

fleece

handful

hassock

hill

hillock

hood

hummock

imperial

knap

knoll

knot

🪢

mount

pack

packet

pappus

patch

pencil

📝

plume

plush

pompom

pompon

pony tail

rag

sheaf

shred

swelling

thicket

tip

top

🔝

topknot

tress

small mountain

tuffet

little piece

flocculus

Traduzioni

touffe

Büschel

pluk

bosje

kuifje

dot

kuif

penacho

manojo

bos

🪵

mechón

🔒

φούντα

Schopf

mèche

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tʌft/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: tuft

Affine inglese antico: þūf

Affine norse antico: þúfa

Affine svedese: tuva

Affine svedese: tova

Affine svedese: tofs

Affine latino: tūber

Affine greco antico: τῡ́φη

In summary

From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).