hufty-tufty adj.
swaggering, boastful.
![]() | Have With You to Saffron-Walden in Works III (1883–4) 106: Gabriell [...] came ruffling it out, hufty tuffty, in his suite of velvet. | |
![]() | Praise of the Red Herring 21: Huftie-tuftie youthful ruffling comrades, wearing euery one three yeardes of feather in his cap for his mistris fauour. | |
![]() | The triumphant widow 42: [T]his honest bluntness is better than the fawning flattery of your perfumed feather’d hufty tufty Fools. |