tufty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having the form of or resembling a tuft (“a bunch of grass, hair, etc., held together at the base”).

   “There was a bed of nothing but mignonette and another of nothing but pansies—borders of double and single daisies and all kinds of little tufty plants she had never seen before.”

2. sıfat Covered in or having many tufts.

   “Witneſs, thou best Anâna, thou the pride / Of vegetable life, beyond whate’er / The poets imaged in the golden age: / Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, / Spread thy ambroſial ſtores, and feaſt with Jove!”

3. sıfat Covered with tufts (“small clumps of bushes or trees”).

   “The Sylvans that about the neighbouring vvoods did dvvell, / Both in the tufty Frith and in the moſſy Fell, / Forſook their gloomy Bovvres, and vvandred farre abroad, / Expeld their quiet fears, and place of their abode, […]”

4. sıfat Growing in tufts.

   “If you haue ſeene at foot of ſome braue hill, / Tvvo Springs ariſe, and delicately trill, / In gentle chidings through an humble dale, / (VVhere tufty Daizies nod at euery gale) […]”

5. isim The tufted duck (Aythya fuligula).

   “Buoyant. That's a tufty. Well, tufted duck, to be formal, but the name always sounds more like tufty duck, and there is something inspiringly matey about a tufty: we are on nickname terms with the bird at first glance.”

6. sıfat Of a cow: seeking a bull to mate with.