The Tufty Club

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TUFT

From Etymonline.com :

“Bunch of soft and flexible things fixed at the base with the upper ends loose,” late 14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French touffe “tuft of hair” (14c.) which is either from Late Latin tufa “a kind of crest on a helmet” (also found in Late Greek toupha), or from a Germanic source (compare Old High German zopf, Old Norse toppr “tuft, summit;” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4 thoughts on “The Tufty Club”

    1. I used to belong to the Tufty Club – mum would take me and my sister on a Saturday morning at Brixton town hall. Road safety and lots of Disney cartoons were shown, from memory.

      Strangely enough, my sister then got hit by a car not far from Brixton town hall. She was okay – got a cut under her eye – but the effect it had on my grandad, whose hand she’s slipped from, was tremendous. His health plummeted and he died from a stroke not long after.

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      1. Me too with the Tufty Club. Bit of a surprise when ‘Tuft’ came to mind and I remembered the Tufty Club. Unfortunately, shocks with car accidents can have that sort of effect especially when you are elderly.

        And ‘not many people know that’. Toupee also meants tuft.

        1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”).

        https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toupee

        And the thistle tuft reminded me of a spirograph as well.

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