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touffu

thick, bushy, dense

adjective too-FU Rare
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Origin: Old French toffe 'tuft', of Germanic origin

Usage Note

Touffu most often describes vegetation (une forêt touffue — a dense forest, une barbe touffue — a bushy beard) but can also describe writing or speech that is overly dense and hard to follow. The feminine form is touffue.

Examples

"Il portait une barbe touffue."

Natural Translation

He wore a bushy beard.

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