HUFTY-TUFTY also HUFTIE TUFTIE ADJ. swaggering, bragging - 1596 obs. NOUN 1. swagger, swaggering manners - 1633 obs. 2. 'bravery', finery - a1652 obs. ETYMOLOGY rhyming compound, from huff (n. ) and tuft (n.). (possibly in reference to tufts of feathers worn as ‘bravery’ or finery) + -y (suffix) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1596 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...I haue a tale at my tungs end if I can happen vpon it, of his hobby horse reuelling & dominering at Audley-end, when the Queene was there : to which place Gabriell [Harvey] (to doo his countrey more worship & glory) came ruffling it out huffty tuffty in his suite of veluet..." From: Haue with You to Saffron-Walden; or, Gabriell Harueys hunt is vp - Thomas Nashe
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