词族 · tuffet
词形变化
英语词源
- tuffet (n.)
- 1550s, "little tuft," from Old French touffel (with diminutive suffix -et for French -el), diminutive of touffe (see tuft). Obsolete except in the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet" (1843), where it has been felt to mean "hassock, footstool."
LITTLE Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
And made of her knees such display
That the old fashioned spider,
Embarrassed beside her,
Was actually frightened away!
[Life Oct. 1, 1927]
权威例句
- 1. Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey.
- 小玛菲特小姐坐在垫子上,吃着凝乳和乳清.