shaggytuft
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the genus Stenandrium of flowering plants.
Example Sentences
- "Shaggytuft, a high pile shaggy surfaced cotton rug with a lustrous sheen which is laundered and pre-shrunk. Shaggytuft is shown in 20 decorative colors, including chartreuse, gray, dusty rose, cantaloupe, golden glow[…]"
- "SHAGGYTUFT. . . newest and smartest of the increasingly popular shaggy-texture fabrics . . . rich, thick and luxuriously soft . . . and REVERSIBLE!"
- "SHAGGY TUFT - All-cotton loop pile on heavy canvas makes this a luxurious rug for your bedroom."
- "A dwarf, tufted, grayish plant with short spikes of pink-rose bilateral flowers nestled among the leaves."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English sċeacga Middle English *schagge English shag Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English shaggy English tuft English shaggytuft From shaggy + tuft.