tufthunter
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tufthunter (plural tufthunters)
- (UK, slang, archaic) A hanger-on to noblemen or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady.
- 1840, The Westminster Review:
- The earl seeing the ecclesiastic abase himself before mere rank , clearly took him for a toady and a tufthunter
References[edit]
- “tufthunter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.