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Tufthunter

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hanger-on to noblemen or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. UK, archaic, slang

    "The earl seeing the ecclesiastic abase himself before mere rank , clearly took him for a toady and a tufthunter"

Etymology

From tuft + hunter.

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