Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A clump or tuft of grass.
- noun A low seat, such as a stool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
clump ofgrass orsimilar vegetation . - noun furniture A large
cushion which may have an internal frame, used as alow seat orstool . - noun An
inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracyparachuting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She first looked around for a place to sit down, and finally discovered a little grassy mound, which is called a tuffet in the country, and seated herself upon it.
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Also known as a tuffet, a name that recalls the nursery rhyme and images of Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey, its image was once old-fashioned.
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Wow, I am really drawn to that stack it "tuffet" stool.
Design*Sponge 2010
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A tuffet of moss caught her as she tumbled free, and she skipped down the lane into town.
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She darted down the lane to the tuffet of moss in the woods.
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Also kudos to the ending where our little miss tuffet goes out with flashing blue and red lights to have a bad acid trip!
Living Doll goes Finnish mrdantefontana 2010
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I was perfectly content as a flightless species, but my wife likes to flit off to the Med whenever possible and enjoy a week of sunstroke and food poisoning, so she booked us a holiday in the island paradise of Gozo, a tuffet of volcanic rock near Malta.
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Tis 'rumored they're sharing a tuffet in hell beating their Kurds and Gays.
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Even if your fanny is still sore, at least it will look good sitting upon this tuffet.
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I was perfectly content as a flightless species, but my wife likes to flit off to the Med whenever possible and enjoy a week of sunstroke and food poisoning, so she booked us a holiday in the island paradise of Gozo, a tuffet of volcanic rock near Malta.
slumry commented on the word tuffet
That upon which Little Miss Muppet sat, eating her curds and whey.
June 27, 2007
bilby commented on the word tuffet
This curious error completed her terror;
She shuddered, and growing much paler, not
Only left tuffet, but dealt him a buffet
Which doubled him up in a sailor knot.
It should be explained that at this he was pained:
He cried: 'I have vexed you, no doubt of it!
Your fist's like a truncheon.' 'You're still in my luncheon,'
Was all that she answered. 'Get out of it!'
- Guy Carryl, 'The Embarrassing Episode Of Little Miss Muffet'.
December 5, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word tuffet
Huh? I'd always heard that a tuffet was a small, grassy hill.
June 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word tuffet
* Earwitness reports suggested a shot may have been fired from the grassy tuffet.
Nup, does not compute.
June 10, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word tuffet
Oh that's interesting, the OED thinks the "hassock or footstool" meaning is dubious and may come from misinterpretation of the nursery rime (as it calls it), which might actually refer to a tuffet = tuft = grassy knoll, hillock.
June 10, 2009
bilby commented on the word tuffet
Suppose you had to go sit on a tuffet;
If unsure, do you think you could bluff it?
Well you could just find some grass
Plonk down your sad ass
Tell Miss Muffet and her tuffet to stuff it.
August 19, 2013