tufthunting

English

Etymology

tuft +‎ hunting

Noun

tufthunting (uncountable)

1. (UK, slang, archaic) The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tufthunting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)