Glossary

Tuffets

They didn't have breath to spare for talking as they began to climb Stoatshead Hill, stumbling occasionally in hidden rabbit holes, slipping on thick black tuffets of grass. (GF6)

Definition

A tuft of stringy things (such as blades of grass, threads, or hairs) held together or growing together at a common base.

Note that this isn't the same sense of the word as in the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet / sat on a tuffet"; the word can also mean a little hill or mound.

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