Daily Word Quiz
ABOB a) to make a hasty departure, to disappear b) to breathe or blow on one c) to bring to an end, to terminate d) to astonish, to confound Answer below. Today's Featured Word: RIFTY TUFTY ADVERB with disorderly haste or confusion; helter-skelter ...1592 obs. ETYMOLOGY origin unknown FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1592 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...To sweare and stare until we come to shore, Then rifty tufty, each one to his skore." From: The Pilgrimage to Paradise By: Nicholas Breton, 1592 Daily Word Quiz Answer ABOB d) to astonish, to confound ...c1330 obs. rare
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Lynda Finn
22/1/2018 06:51:47 pm
Slightly different but I know a country dance called Rufty Tufy, used to do it as school in the 50's.
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Words and Phrases from the Past
22/1/2018 09:14:16 pm
Rufty-tufty was also an early 17th century adjective for rude, impudent, or rough.
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