Tuffet (A)

A small tuft or clump. Strange that this word, so universally known, has never been introduced into our dictionaries, to the best of my knowledge.

“Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet

Eating her curds and whey …”

Nursery Rhymes.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.