tufo

Borrowed from French touffe.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtufo/
• Hyphenation: tu‧fo
• Rhymes: -ufo

tufo (accusative singular tufon, plural tufoj, accusative plural tufojn)

1. tuft

From Vulgar Latin tūfus, from tȳphus, from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtufo̝/

tufo m (plural tufos)

1. foul odor, stench

From Vulgar Latin *tofa, from tōfus.[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtufo̝/

tufo m (plural tufos)

1. (geology) tuff

Probably from French or Old French touffe, this either from Late Latin tufus, from Proto-Germanic *þūbaz (whence English tuft), or from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz.[3][4] Cognate with Spanish tojino.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtufo̝/

tufo m (plural tufos)

1. punch (tool) used by blacksmiths to bore the wooden shafts of axes, etcetera
2. extreme of the axle that inserts into the wheel
3. spigot

• tufeira

tufo m (plural tufos)

1. flock of wool
2. small piece of cloth attached to a main one

• “tufo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tufo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tufo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tufo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tufo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin tōfus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.fo/, [ˈt̪uːfo]
• Rhymes: -ufo
• Hyphenation: tù‧fo

tufo m (plural tufi)

1. tuff

• tofu

From French touffe.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.fu/
• Hyphenation: tu‧fo

tufo m (plural tufos)

1. tuft (bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base)

tufo m (plural tufos)

1. foul odor, stench
2. bad breath
3. a wisp (of hair)