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tuffet

tuffet

1 9.9
A low padded seat used to rest your feet while you sit
  • noun
  • /ˈtʌfɪt/
  • Archaic
: taburete
  • He brought a small tuffet for her to use while reading in the garden.
  • sat on a tuffet

Examples

  • - Down... - Down on a tuffet.

    A Woman's Face (1941)

  • Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey...

    Fiction book (1990)

  • "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet "Eating her curds and whey -"And along came a spider -(BUNNY SCREAMS)

    Arachnophobia (1990)

  • After a long day, she kicked off her shoes and rested her feet on the soft tuffet beside her chair.

  • During the story, Little Miss Muffet sat on a comfortable tuffet while enjoying her snacks.

Synonyms

ottoman
vstuffet
10 4.7

A low padded seat without a back or arms that you rest your feet on and use to store things

is smaller and focused on being a low padded seat for feet
footstool
vstuffet
5 2.7

A low seat for resting your feet while you sit

is often padded and serves as a small low seat for feet
footrest
vstuffet
3 2.2

A low support you put your feet on when you sit

is more of a small padded seat used both for feet and sitting
pouf
vstuffet
  • UK
1 6.6

A thick low cushion used as a seat or footstool

is usually a small padded seat rather than a loose cushion
taboret
vstuffet
1 9.9

A low round stool people use as a small seat or stand

is typically a padded low foot support rather than a hard drum stool
subiculum
vstuffet
  • Archaic
9.9

A small low seat or footstool used in ancient homes

is the modern padded low seat form rather than an old bed or couch

How Comfortable

recliner
19 3.1
armchair
31 1.0
tuffet
  • Archaic
1 9.9
footstool
5 2.7
stool
106 1.0

Surface Forms

tuffet singular
tuffets plural

Morphology

tuffet = tuft (semi-transparent) = tuft + et

The form is clearly tuft + diminutive suffix -et, but the 'low seat/footstool' sense is a figurative extension from a small clump to a small seat and is not immediately obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Tuffet comes from an old French word for tuft, a small 'bunch' of grass or cloth. Think of a soft little bunch you could sit on, like in the rhyme 'Little Miss Muffet'—that's why a tuffet is a low padded seat or footstool.