tufty

• There was a bed of nothing but mignonette and another of nothing but pansies—borders of double and single daisies and all kinds of little tufty plants she had never seen before. - 1918 June, Katherine Mansfield...
• Here he stood for a moment looking up and down the narrow road and the heavy snowflakes covered his shoulders and his tufty, ill-kempt hair. - 1933, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter XXXIV, in The Way of the...
• In recent years Nelson has grown a mustache, a tufty brown smudge not much wider than his nose. - 1990, John Updike, chapter I, in Rabbit at Rest, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 2010, page 14:

Synonyms: penicillate

• Witneſs, thou best Anâna, thou the pride / Of vegetable life, beyond whate’er / The poets imaged in the golden age: / Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, / Spread thy ambroſial ſtores, and feaſt with Jove! - a....
• In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it...

Synonyms: tufted

1. (obsolete, rare) Covered with tufts (“small clumps of bushes or trees”).

   • The Sylvans that about the neighbouring vvoods did dvvell, / Both in the tufty Frith and in the moſſy Fell, / Forſook their gloomy Bovvres, and vvandred farre abroad, / Expeld their quiet fears, and place of their...

   Synonyms: tufted

• If you haue ſeene at foot of ſome braue hill, / Tvvo Springs ariſe, and delicately trill, / In gentle chidings through an humble dale, / (VVhere tufty Daizies nod at euery gale) […] - 1613, William Browne, “The Fifth...

• Buoyant. That's a tufty. Well, tufted duck, to be formal, but the name always sounds more like tufty duck, and there is something inspiringly matey about a tufty: we are on nickname terms with the bird at first glance....