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tufthunter

noun

Etymology

From tuft + hunter.

  1. inherited from huntere
  2. compounded as tufthunter — “tuft + hunter”

Definitions

  1. A hanger-on to noblemen or persons of quality, especially in English universities

    A hanger-on to noblemen or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady.

    • The earl seeing the ecclesiastic abase himself before mere rank , clearly took him for a toady and a tufthunter

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA