I've always imagined a tuffet as kind of a small, round padded ottoman with a simple wood base and no legs.
@MoonlitNyxx
Жыл бұрын
😂
@carolefreeman2544
Жыл бұрын
I agree. I was two when I first heard this late 50’s.
@sarahharrison8520
Жыл бұрын
That’s what I think of too
@turgityfarms3752
Жыл бұрын
Maybe, a small wooden stool with three legs.
@alflyover4413
Жыл бұрын
That's close to my understanding of the thing too, except once I got past Miss Muffet sitting on a padded stool of some type I quit trying to imagine if it had legs or not. In my mental image of it it was only vaguely connected to earth, but the floral upholstery was something to see.
@birbbabybirb
Жыл бұрын
Tuffet has always been a mushroom to me. Don't know why, but it is.
@JessFirefox
Жыл бұрын
Same
@li.li.
Жыл бұрын
I remember her sitting on a mushroom-shaped thing in one story and assumed that was a tuffet 😂
@parkerklick
Жыл бұрын
Same. I've always seen an oversized red capped mushroom 🍄
@wolfcat1973
Жыл бұрын
Always thought that, too, but as a large, flat-topped mushroom.
@PhantomFerret
Жыл бұрын
Same
@proanimali
Жыл бұрын
I always thought a tuffet was a kind of cushion, like a pouffe. In any rate, thank you for this interesting excursion, Jon.
@clarezoldyck1482
8 ай бұрын
I came to say this exact thing, or like the cushion lil girls wore under their dress
@kimberlypatterson3171
Жыл бұрын
It always makes me feel like the little girl is sitting on an overstuffed cushion, very soft and colorful.
@EBThisThat
Жыл бұрын
I was exposed to Little Miss Muffet very early in life. In fact, once I utterly loathed reading until my Grandmother introduced me to Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes and Grimm's Fairy Tales. After that, I was hooked and couldn't stop reading. I always thought a tuffet was a three-legged stool, but a cushion came to mind too.
@tyrant-den884
Жыл бұрын
it just means "tuft". the writer was probably trying to force into rhyme scheme.
@StandYourGroundHomestead
Жыл бұрын
tuf·fet /ˈtəfət/ noun 1. a tuft or clump of something. "grass tuffets" 2. a footstool or low seat.
@JessicaMosteller
Жыл бұрын
I always pictured a tufted cushion.
@leigh-anjohnson
Жыл бұрын
A mushroom 🍄
@EBThisThat
Жыл бұрын
@@leigh-anjohnson Interesting, but that makes sense too.
@AnimaMandala
Жыл бұрын
I remember from an episode of the original Muppet Babies that they described a tuffet as "just a bunch of grass", because the kids couldn't enjoy the rhyme without understanding the words. So I have to agree with the image of a grassy hill.
@vixxxenfoxxx3660
Жыл бұрын
Im from a small farm town in WV and we always referred to a plush area of grass as a tuffet... or would say 'that tuffet of grass over by the creek'. I just assumed it was a real word/wording everywhere until now. I'm 35yrs old and still use tuffet to mean a plush area of grass. I guess we just got it from our parents and grandparents and so on never thinking it wasn't right or wrong.
@BiteSizedCrafter
Жыл бұрын
Google says that is what it is.
@lady_bexy
Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I thought it was...why did anyone think it was a mushroom?!?
@PeachysMom
Жыл бұрын
@@lady_bexyright? You can’t sit on a mushroom
@janwoodward7360
Жыл бұрын
Using tuffet to refer to a clump of grass is the country derivation of the medieval tuft, as in a tuft of grass.
@kellymaganini9228
Жыл бұрын
little sally walker is a modern day version of the sally waters games that i used to plat all the time. crazy how traditions like these go through variations but stay essentially the same.
@naly202
Жыл бұрын
Joan Sanderson was an amazing actress, whenever the BBC needed someone to play a tough bossy woman, they asked her. She had a dominating voice and icy cold eyes. A joy to hear/ watch in every episode
@BadWebDiver
Жыл бұрын
Loved her in Fawlty Towers and in The Great Muppet Caper! She was a great foil to John Cleese.
@darriendastar3941
Жыл бұрын
This was good. It's the 'tuffet' thing that made me think. When I was a very little kid, my great aunts (born in Victorian times) had things called 'tuffits', They were like really cushioned footstools and every time we visited them I'd be placed on it and carefully schooled to look like a waif who'd appreciate an inheritance from wealthier relatives. The thing is that I don't know whether a 'tuffit' came from the nursery rhyme or came from the early medieval times when my great aunts were most probably born.
@kohakuaiko
Жыл бұрын
😂😅😂😅😊
@elowishusmirkatroid4898
Жыл бұрын
Thats being a bit mean to your great aunts, but they are probably correct.
@ginnieplato2871
Жыл бұрын
Excellent remembrance, thanks for sharing!
@corvuskro5452
Жыл бұрын
....and the inheritance,,,?
@Emperor_Oshron
Жыл бұрын
i'm certain that i'd heard it before then, but one of the earliest memories i have of a _Little Miss Muffet_ was a satirical one from a mid-century cartoon. it's played totally straight with Miss Muffet sitting facing away from the audience, the spider comes down to frighten her as expected, then it turns out that she's hideously ugly (in that '40s and '50s cartoon style :P) and it's the spider who gets scared away instead
@ginnieplato2871
Жыл бұрын
I remember that cartoon! Think it was a Loony Tune/Merry Melody thing…wow, a blast from the past
@tiahnarodriguez3809
Жыл бұрын
@@ginnieplato2871 It was one of those. I remember watching that episode too 😂
@siobhanomalley1968
Жыл бұрын
It was explained to me as a child that tuffet is another of the various local English terms for a mound of grass, like tussock or hummock! I remember the poem itself from a nursery rhyme book my mum used to read us.
@collienkaseberg9615
Жыл бұрын
I always thought a tuffet was like a hassock that had buttons on it. And of course, curds and whey is cottage cheese. I've listened to and read this one to other little ones for over 80 years.; I love your Messed Up versions of the nursery rhymes and folklore. Thanx for doing the research and sharing it as some I've known and others I haven't. It is SO interesting!
@destinyheath6583
Жыл бұрын
I always thought that a tuffet was like a stool with a cushion sewed on top so it was soft
@brandonprater4613
Жыл бұрын
Growing up I had heard the line as "sat on her tuffet". So I always thought it meant rear-end, like tuchus or keister.
@pokemonsdoom
2 ай бұрын
same,
@porshprix4286
Жыл бұрын
Brings back memories of my grandmother reading to me when I was a very small child. Anyone old enough to remember Golden books ?
@jenn4593
Жыл бұрын
Me! ☺
@BadWebDiver
Жыл бұрын
They were a staple when I was a kid.
@alchemist6098
Жыл бұрын
when I was a child I had a set of books published in 1928. The first book was full of nursery rhymes, poems and short stories. It also included Little Miss Muffet. It stated, “ along came a spider”. I still have the books and raised my children reading the books. I now have grandchildren.
@mindyschocolate
8 ай бұрын
I have a volume of six books (My Book House Collection) passed down through three generations myself. First book is short rhymes. Second book are more like short stories, and so on. It’s like the books age with the kid. Like Harry Potter books comparing the last and the first. My favorite story was the spoiled prince who was locked into a room with a songbird in a fancy room and each day the room and food got worse until he and the bird was left and he let the bird go so it at least could escape the prison and he learned to be unselfish and his fairy godmother freed him. I loved it.
@nanoglitch6693
Жыл бұрын
I always pictured the event taking place outdoors on a little grassy hill or something but tbh, I always just assumed "sat on her tuffet" was just a cutesy way of saying "she sat on her butt" lol 😂
@tyrant-den884
Жыл бұрын
What I always assumed. But thinking about it, its probably just forcing "tuft of grass" to fit iambic pentameter.
@KuLaydMahn
Жыл бұрын
Same
@okami-shaman9548
Жыл бұрын
Same, the buttocks has always been subject to censored to be more "polite and comical"
@katywynter6419
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I always thought it was like tush or tushie.
@janelleradke4346
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I thought too
@scilamaccagno2206
Жыл бұрын
I can remember picturing her sitting on a a large red and white mushroom. Perhaps it was because in the story she was sitting on a flowered hill and my childhood mind turned it into the mushroom. I am 54, and memory tends to fade. Thank you for another great video! Be well.
@vladyvhv9579
Жыл бұрын
Some story books and interpretations do depict this. I've seen it when I was a kid, when my brother (11 years youger than me) was a kid, and a few years ago when my niece (now 7) was younger.
@kathrinsides2838
10 ай бұрын
“It was horndog shit like this”…😹😹😹 You definitely have a point, there, man, and you absolutely have a way with words that makes me laugh…
@julieabraham3566
Жыл бұрын
In my early childhood, the book of nursery rhymes that was read to me depicted the "tuffet" as a fancy cushion. Later, I saw that other books had her sitting on a variety of different things, including a bare floor. I figured that all those different things couldn't be a tuffet so I led myself to conclude that a tuffet was a cute word for bottom. It didn't matter what she was sitting upon because she was always sitting on her bottom!
@limner123
10 ай бұрын
Little you was so clever
@rinpaisys
Жыл бұрын
The version I always heard growing up was “little miss muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her PORRIDGE and whey. Along came a spider, who sat down beside her, scaring miss muffet away.” The illustrations portrayed her sitting on a short 3 legged stool with a cushion on it, so I always figured a tuffet was a cushioned stool like that. Often a grassy area for scenery.
@ballerinaplays9013
Жыл бұрын
Same
@bread9276
Жыл бұрын
same
@muurrarium9460
Жыл бұрын
Probably because nobody knew what curds where and decided to make it more edible-sounding?
@reverbscherzo7850
Жыл бұрын
@@muurrarium9460Wait, they didn’t know what curds were, but they knew what whey was? Of course, if you change whey to something else, too, it no longer rhymes, lol.
@muurrarium9460
Жыл бұрын
@@reverbscherzo7850 I guess? I have no idea what people do or do not know. (Lol, my life would be so much easier if I did! ). Maybe because "curds" sound like some crusty (probably venereal) disease ?
@fairyink4850
Жыл бұрын
I always thought a tuffet was a small cushiony stool and I think I first time I heard of this nursery rhyme it was probably when I was a toddler cuz my mom had this one old nursery rhyme book and it was chock-full of old rhymes and stories and she would read them to me, it's still one of my most favorite books
@rocnado
Жыл бұрын
Coming back to your channel after a long time away. It’s nice to see you again man!
@williamdavid3933
Жыл бұрын
I always thought her tuffet was referring to the multiple layers of clothing that people usually wore back then. In particular girl's dresses could kind of be folded up in the rear to create a cushion to sit on called a "tuffet" and her name was made Muffet because it was a common name back then that rhymes with Tuffet.
@LOwens-xf8yo
Жыл бұрын
Me too!
@user-tw9uf9pn3g
4 ай бұрын
But...a White pixelated dog used that name for a wicked witch
@gothiclg
Жыл бұрын
Tuffet for me was always a very large pillow. I don’t remember the name of the book but it had a picture of her sitting on a very large pillow
@kandipiatkowski8589
Жыл бұрын
I've always thought a tuffet refered to a cushion. There are many variations of tufted cushions, so that was the most logical imagery. I cant tell you when i first encountered the rhyme, as it was too far back in my childhood. I always just assumed it was a rhyme about a girl with arachniphobia who aas just minding her business eating cottage cheese, until she saw the spider and ran away.
@timefoolery
Жыл бұрын
I’ve always thought of a tuffet being a cushioned stool, and I always pictured her sitting under a tree because where else would the spider come from?? 😂 Although I suspect my opinion was likely formed by a drawing in a book of fairy tales I owned back then. I’m guessing I heard the rhyme early because my sister liked to play teacher and I was her only student.
@Hiforest
Жыл бұрын
Or in a barn. I had assumed she was a milking maid tbh
@user-tw9uf9pn3g
4 ай бұрын
Or...she was in a donut vending stand-.... WAIT A MINUTE-
@claudefrolltomstein8935
11 ай бұрын
I always pictured a tuffet being a fancy pillow. I remember I would often use the word "tuffet" when I was younger to describe a fancy pillow-like cushion that nobles would sit on.
@Porkypigyt
Жыл бұрын
Jon never fails to make our day!
@heathermason9311
Жыл бұрын
Haven’t even watched the video yet and I know it’s going to be amazing. Thanks, Jon! I’m looking forward to this one!!
@kiralana324
Жыл бұрын
I was introduced to this rhyme when I was about 6-7, ( im in my 40's and raised catolic) I was always told that a tuffet is a hill/ stump/ or rock, usually moss covered, commonly used as a seat for land laborers/ peasants for mid-day meals and breaks 2= " clotted cream" is just sweetened 'cottage cheese' sometimes whipped before prep
@dennisstoddard2008
Жыл бұрын
Nicely thought out and performed. This is what makes it fun to watch you.
@Haley_Halo
Жыл бұрын
Interesting as always, Jon! First time I heard of Miss Muffet was from a 1935 Terrytown cartoon called 'Ye Olde Toyshop' which has a few nursery rhyme characters.
@DobrieLov
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I thought the tuffet was a cushion/pillow made of fur because it sounds like “muff” lol. You know like those hand warmer things. But I was also probably influenced by a book illustration. I can’t remember when I first heard this cause I was too young! Probably 2 or 3 I’m guessing.
@GoodJuju.8D
Жыл бұрын
I was cast in the starring role of Little Miss Muffet in 1st grade! I sat on a tuffet, which looked like a large mushroom to me, and wore a pink dress, matching mop cap and bloomers. A spider descended upon me via a string on a stick which startled me in the extreme, causing me to run through the rows of desks and out into the hallway. (The parents version was me running through a path lined with parents and out to the hallway.) I did have nightmares the week of rehearsals. I didn't try out for another play until 7th grade. I won the part of a nun in the Sound of Music. No nightmares of Nazis, thank goodness. Thanks for the memories... and the nightmares....
@mommat1144
10 ай бұрын
When I was 4 I had a dress with the nursery rhythm on it. Because it was on my pretty dress, it was my favorite nursery rhythm. So much so that I named my kitten Mr. Muffett. That was in 1977.....
@god-rj5wf
Жыл бұрын
i always assumed that Little Miss Muffet was just sitting on a pillow, so i guess that fits with the whole "cushion dance" thing.
@richewilson6394
Жыл бұрын
I always thought of a tuffet as a huge mushroom they have ones that are about the size of medium size beach balls. I mostly remember this from watching a stop motion animation short of classic fairy tales, that Ray harryhausen had done in starting his career.
@firethetruthmarcuscarrollE.T.R
Жыл бұрын
London bridges, Humpty Dumbty, Miss Mary Mack, Mary Had A Little Lamb All Theses Olden Day Songs Has Creepy Meanings
@alucardhuskasai5667
Жыл бұрын
A Tuffet is a English Home Seat that was commonly used by tailors while noble Ladies were being fitted to get a New dress made for an event or a Ball, the stool came up to half the knee, and was padded to allow ladies to sit to help with making sure the dress would look nice if the lady sat, (basically, if you wanted a dress for a noble women that was going to be sitting, they'd be "sitting on the tuffet") basically though the Tuffet was the seat they'd make the lower part of the dress on to make sure it was a "proper" ballgown (it didn't show your knees while you sat down).
@CleoHarperReturns
Жыл бұрын
As someone with a HUGE phobia of spiders I have to admit that I listened to this rather than watched it -- because there are always pictures. I can't take the pictures. Meanwhile, the computer's monitor was turned towards the wall like a shame-faced child. I will never think about cottage cheese the same.🕷 Anyhow, when someone soldiers through stories so very beyond their comfort zone, that's love and devotion. And yeah, also that therapy thing you said. Honestly I can't remember a time where I didn't know the rhyme; however, I can remember a time before my fear of spiders. I have no recollection of what changed but I have a feeling it has to do with my sometimes hysterical mother who loved to play pranks and a log cabin we lived in in the UP of Michigan.🙄 Thanks, Mom.
@buddylee5712
Жыл бұрын
Jon doesn't miss with these videos!
@whatwilliswastalkingabout
Жыл бұрын
I still think of myself as young, but then I hear people like you say they have “deep, deep memories” of a Barney episode… and I realize I’m in my twilight years
@westzed23
Жыл бұрын
I was told that a tuffet was a small stool with a cushion top. Rather like a footstool with a cushion or what we call a hassock. I heard the rhyme all my life as my mother read it to my sister and brothers that were older than me. Ring around the Rosie was a favourite of my youngest brother because we used a hulahoop to hold on to, then fell to the floor.
@soulslvr9562
Жыл бұрын
I always thought that a tuffet was a mushroom. I always thought it was a small fairy girl who was scared away from a spider. I dont remember when i was first exposed to it. But i was a small kid in elementary digging through books because i was bored
@heathertaylor-willockx3632
Жыл бұрын
I have also always thought a tuffet was a giant mushroom...but have no idea why
@TheDarthSoldier
6 ай бұрын
My favorite version is the Rocky and Bullwinkle version... in the middle of the rhyme, Rocky even asks bullwinkle "what's a tuffet?" To which bullwinkle replies "it's what I'm sitting on"
@naly202
Жыл бұрын
The cushion tradition is still popular in Romania "Perinița" (cushion), people dance in a circle, one in the middle chooses someone to kiss, etc
@grapeshot
Жыл бұрын
Well it could have been worse that spider could have been a Wandering Spider also known as the Banana Spider.
@tarawalker7193
Жыл бұрын
I always pictured her sitting on a small stool, courtesy of my 1982 Disney nursery rhymes book. I loved that book!
@davinarathbun2693
Жыл бұрын
I'm almost 70 now and my kindergarten teacher told me that the tuffet is the puffy cushion made by the petticoats and all the materials used to make miss muffet's skirt fan out and twirl when she walked similar to a tutu under her skirts.
@davidroddick91
Жыл бұрын
For some reason, as a child, I always pictured the "tuffet" to be a toadstool. No idea where that image came from, but to this day that's what I imagine when I hear it.
@DoubleDealingDisarray
Жыл бұрын
I always thought a tuffet was a short stool with a pillow cushion just the right size for a child. 🤔 And I actually did find the curds and whey segment interesting, since I had never heard of junket before. Now I need to try some. 😋 🤤 😂 Any new little facts you add, usually associated with the subject at hand, is intriguing. 😁 Keep up the great work!
@mariawhite7337
Жыл бұрын
Junket is so difficult! 😢 is basically like a form of rennet. I've tried it so many times and failed.
@davidbeatty5820
Жыл бұрын
Love your videos man
@tristanvanderkleij8206
10 ай бұрын
I can remember from elementary school, where we would sing a nursery rhyme where one child would sit in the middle and play a "gypsy child crying on a stone". The rest of the class would sing the nursery rhyme trying to console them and after the class finished singing, the gypsy child would choose another child from the group and dance with them. After that the one who danced with the gypsy child would take their place. Just thought this was similar to the kid-friendly wedding tradition thing.
@nellieduncan8448
Жыл бұрын
Woah I think a game I used to play at cheer camp was based on this! It’s called “little sally walker” you all get in a circle and one person skips around the inside of it while everyone claps and sings “little sally Walker walking down the street, she didn’t know what to do so she stopped in front of me” then whoever is skipping stops and they do a silly dance in front of whoever they stopped by and everyone sings “hey girl do your thing, do your thing.” Then the person they are in front of copies them and everyone sings “hey girl do your thing, do your thing, stop!” Then they switch and repeat until everyone had a turn
@DelicateInferno
Жыл бұрын
I thought the tuffet was a toadstool.. likely because of the illustration of her that accompanied the rhyme in the book.
@greenhollyknight4846
Жыл бұрын
I always thought it was a mushroom of some sort. I was around 5 years old or so. The nursery rhythm book had a picture of a mushroom in it.
@masonmorgan8560
Жыл бұрын
I've been waiting all week for this. Thank you, sir.
@amihicks9116
Жыл бұрын
I've always thought of a tufett as a small tufted cushion. I had a little doll, about 4" high, of a Miss Muffet, cushion, and bowl of curds and whey. I don't ever remember having a spider. My daughters played with her as well. I'm pretty sure shes still safely packed in a box awaiting grandchildren to continue the Muffet saga!
@lennahdrechsler9454
Жыл бұрын
When I was younger, I had a golden book that was filled with nursery rimse that I used to look through a lot. That is probably where I first heard about little Miss Muffit😊.
@deltatango6793
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid, I used to go to cheerleading camp for a week in the summer, and we always played a game called “Little Sally Walker… I wonder if it’s related? 🤷🏼♀️ You play it in a circle and one at a time you go up to a random person in the circle, dance with them, and then they take over the role of skipping around the inner circumference of the circle… and then they dance with someone… Probably related? Similar song, maybe? Lol it was, “Little Sally Walker, walking down the street, she had nothing to do, so she came right up to me, she said, “come on girl, shake that thing, shake, that thing, don’t stop… come on girl, shake that thing, shake, that thing, don’t stop…” (lol then repeat) we did it as an ice breaker thing
@katywynter6419
Жыл бұрын
Where did you go to Cheerleading camp? Cuz I'm from upstate NY and we used to sing that too !!!
@deltatango6793
Жыл бұрын
@@katywynter6419 I’m from NJ! Lol I don’t remember where camp was specifically.. (did it at competitions too!) I graduated HS in 2002, so it’s been a whileee…. But I’ve coached until a few years ago and they still sang it haha
@pabmusic1
Жыл бұрын
'Tea' and 'away' probably did rhyme when it was coined (a bit like 'tay'). 'Tuffet' dates from the 1550s. It's a diminutive of the French 'touffe' - a tuft (of grass probably). It meant 'a little tuft".
@quitelight9693
Жыл бұрын
I thought a tuffet was a small padded stool, because I had a fancy grandmother and knew the words "tufted" and "hassock" oddly young. When I was old enough to question tuffet, I thought it sounded like a mashup of those 2 words. I just looked up hassock on Wikipedia (because I mix up hassock and cassock) and tuffet is listed as something hassock may refer to, so I'm not the only one. :)
@norasavage19
Жыл бұрын
I always thought that a tuffet was either a very plush cushion, or a mound of grass (“tuffet” reminds me of the word “tuft” as in “tuft of grass”).
@robyncorbett7965
Жыл бұрын
I looked it up, and "tuffet" can mean either clumps of something, or a footstool/low seat. And I've always imagined ms muffet sitting in her kitchen or living room, probably because of whatever book I was reading
@clivemacken552
Жыл бұрын
Ring a ring a Rosie’s meaning behind it is that this rhyme arose from the Great Plague, an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague that affected London in the year 1665: Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses is all about the Great Plague; the apparent whimsy being a foil for one of London's most atavistic dreads
@tammygant4216
Жыл бұрын
I can't remember when I first heard it. There were always books lying around my house when I was growing up and we were big time library users, so I can't say for sure. But I'm sure I knew it by the time I was 6 or 7. I always picture a tuffet as a big fluffy cartoon mushroom (red with yellow spots)....and I'm willing to bet that has everything to do with whatever illustration was with the rhyme the first time I heard it.
@matthewwriter9539
Жыл бұрын
Little Peter Parker sat in a corner, clicking his camera, when along came a spider...
@user-tw9uf9pn3g
4 ай бұрын
And he became SPIDER MAN so muffet was bit and became Muffet and started selling doughnuts
@chailisrathbone835
Жыл бұрын
A tuffet, to me, has always been a pouf, or a puffy cushion/pillow/ottoman type thing
@keithhardy1784
Жыл бұрын
I remember reading, in the early '80s, in the etymology in Webster's Dictionary, that "tuffet" was just a stretched-out pronunciation of "tuft," such as a tuft of grass, but was later misunderstood, "because of its use in a nursery rhyme," to mean a little stool to sit on.
@GremlinSciences
Жыл бұрын
The modern meaning of tuffet is a footstool or low seat, which would generally match the idea that it refers to a cushion, however that meaning did not surface until a while after the verse was put to paper. Back when the rhyme was first written down, English didn't have standardized spelling yet and there was the now similarly spelled "tuffete" from which we get the word "tuft". From what I recall, tuffet may also be a typo or mispenning of "tusset" which would have referred simply to her backside and has since changed into "tushie" and "tush"
@zarinaa1135
Жыл бұрын
I've always thought a tuffet was a fluffy floor pillow, like what they have in India and the Middle East, (weird, considering that I always imagined the story taking place in England) or a fluffy ottoman. I dunno but the word buffet sounds so fluffy and comfy to me. A feathery, fluffy cushion to curl up on away from spiders and eat a pudding pop
@sjmhadsock4586
Жыл бұрын
Im guessing a tuffit is referring to a seat of some kind
@egyptcat4301
10 ай бұрын
Great story as always! I was about 3 when I heard this nursery rhyme, 4 when I learned to read. I thought her tuffet was a cushion. I remember asking my mother what it was, and she said, "I don't know, probably her bottom." 😂😂😂
@skyislands8887
Жыл бұрын
Taffet comes over from French, touff, touffel or touffet which is a small padded footstool, aslo a commonly known as a hassock which in turn was also used ( or came from) as an early English word meaning for a small earthy, mossy or peat type mound, generally a soft and comfortable place to sit or kneel on. Hassock in turn became the name for a small soft cushion used to kneel in church, which in turn became small transportable cushion that women could discreetly carry when pausing to seat while a garden stroll, that in more gentrified circles was also called a tuffet. And the merry word world goes round. This I knew from doing an assignment in school 40 odd years ago. Untill today, I never heard of the all in bridal love fest, but it makes sense. ( Not the love fest, that's weird, but the tuffet entomology) So, all is correct, and I've probably disappointed a lot of (big) children. Miss Muffit can put her cushion on a stool on a pile of dirt and incy wicny spider can induce a psychotic episode all over again.
@tyrant-den884
Жыл бұрын
I would assume "tuffet" is an iambic pentameter-ism of "tuft", as in a "tuft of grass"
@TitularHeroine
Жыл бұрын
That rhythm isn't anywhere close to iambic pentameter. But your insight that the pronunciation of "tuft" may have changed to fit, really is pretty cool
@tyrant-den884
Жыл бұрын
@@TitularHeroine isn't it though? lit-TLE miss MUFF-et SAT on HER teff-ET
@TitularHeroine
Жыл бұрын
@@tyrant-den884 Unless you're just f*kcin' with me, it's a dimeter, not pentameter, and those are not iambs, each line is a dactyl followed by a trochee. Unless you're just f*kcin' wit' me. ;)
@tyrant-den884
Жыл бұрын
@@TitularHeroine look you are obviously right that i mixed up my iambs and trochees, but you are pushing it with the dactyls. This is a simple trochaic scheme. I am not even convinced about the pentameter beyond being an excuse to turn tuft into a new word.
@tyrant-den884
Жыл бұрын
@@TitularHeroine and _dimeter?_ are you insane? I doubt the writer took the meter that seriously, but if this is anything less than trimeter it loses all sanity.
@youngblood6926
Жыл бұрын
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@angelicakoutsouridakis5816
8 ай бұрын
Oh god the trauma! When I was a kid we had bugs in the food sometimes but we were forced to eat it because we were poor. Thanks. 😅😅 Now I am grown up and I panic if my food crunches, like if there’s a bit of eggshell by mistake etc, because it like some form of ptsd and if a non-crunchy food suddenly crunches, I panic and throw up. I had no idea you would be talking about eating spiders. But I love your videos. I grew up in countries of great mythology and I always love how deep down to the roots you go when you’re doing these videos.
@supertruther6046
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact A Tophet was a man made hill with a chamber and alter inside used by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians for child sacrifice, however it would also appear to be a pseudonym for Moloch himself. Medieval French Rabbi Schlomo Yitzchaki, otherwise known as Rashi, wrote an extensive commentary on these passages in the 12th century. As he wrote: “Topheth is Moloch, which was made of brass; and they heated him from his lower parts; and his hands being stretched out, and made hot, they put the child between his hands, and it was burnt; when it vehemently cried out; but the priests beat a drum, that the father might not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved.”
@tafalagiluapedro4006
Жыл бұрын
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@davidbeatty5820
Жыл бұрын
First😊
@lalalexuss
Жыл бұрын
Something I thought that was interesting, as a little girl there was a game I would play with others I'm school like an "ice breaker." we would all stand in a circle, and one person would be dancing in the middle until the song said to "stop" which the dancer would then, stop in front of another person and they would dance together until the end of the song. Which then the couple would switch spots. The mew person would be in the middle, repeating the original person. The song was called "Sally walker". SO SIMILAR!!
@sharendonnelly7770
Жыл бұрын
Tuffet, a small pillow with buttoned indentations to place upon the ground or other hard surfaces to make a comfy place to sit. I remember being a very small child, probably 2 or 3, when first hearing this nursery rhyme, along with the "itsy bitsy spider". Later, when learning "ring around the rosy" was about the bubonic plague, I realized that nursery rhymes were about coping with traumatic life events. Simply, make light of it, and you will be fine.
@imjustadrummer
Жыл бұрын
A small purple and gold pillow, with long golden tassles on each corner, on top of a tree stump. Love the video!
@Wavygravydressedinnavy
Жыл бұрын
I’ve always thought of a tuffet as a small grassy mound, basically a tuft of grass. Tuft = tuffet.
@chuckienunyobiz1882
Жыл бұрын
A tuffet is also a type of overstuffed cushion. It is called that because it was often green velvet (like grass), and very rounded on top.
@christinerobinson9372
Жыл бұрын
I picture a round, tufted cushion. In furniture, a tuft is one of several pads made by buttons sewn into the cushion to secure the stuffing. But there are other definitions of "tuft" that would also fit the poem. And now as I think of it, a small, rounded part of Miss Muffit's anatomy was certainly what she was sitting on.
@tracyroake2815
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this story! I enjoyed every moment of it, thank you!
@c.w.r.794
Жыл бұрын
I remember an episode of Bear in the Big Blue House, where shadow (Bear’s friend with no face- as she’s a literal shadow, who just might be a demon.) told the story of Ms. Muffett and the spider came down and asked: “What’s a tuffet?” And Shadow told him it was a “little stool”. So, I’ll always picture a little stool when I think of the rhyme.
@DanielDiaz-ng7gp
10 ай бұрын
I have been hearing Little Miss Buffet since I was a kid, and now I'm over 50 years old and to this day i always wonder what the hell is a Tuffet. So I had to make up what the hell is a Tuffet, and what I came up with all these years is that the tuffet is the grass she's sitting on. I thought that Jon Soli was going to tell us what a Tuffet is, but he didn't oh well, maybe one day we'll know what the hell is a Tuffet.
@veronicafullford1697
Жыл бұрын
I am 70 and when I was little my mother gave me ‘junket’ which she said was like curds and whey. This was for pudding in the summer and it was really lovely.
@AustynSN
Жыл бұрын
I heard as a child (from a grade school teacher, I think) that a "tuffet" was a patch of grass. In my mind, though, we should just just (wrongly but logically) assume it's old European slang for one's behind. I mean, how cute would it be to start telling little kids to "get off your tuffet and go outside and play," or "move your tuffet out of the way", etc?
@KryRF
Жыл бұрын
“Or you’re just a Fear Factor fan!” 😂
@Promses2Keep
Жыл бұрын
Just discovered your channel...say 'ello to your NEW lifelong fan! And I first heard this nursery rhyme in Kindergarten...and I'm picturing a "tuffet" as some sort of soft, pillow-like seat.
@hattyburrow716
Жыл бұрын
I’m 66 and British had an old old book with Miss Muffet in, also I don’t like spiders. A tuffet was a small round fabric footstool, homemade and like a huge tomato, we had them. My sister made one.
@crwydryny
Жыл бұрын
Where i live a "tuffit" refers to a small grassy mound, usually about 1ft in diameter made where soil collects around the root ball of a "tuft of grass" sometimes called a tussock
@tridevichamundamandirwithy6282
Жыл бұрын
In Colorado we have the following; One fine day, Claudine Longet, moved up to Aspen to stay. Along came a spider, who layed down beside her, and she blew the poor bastard away.
@YsnBam
Жыл бұрын
4:29 nahh fr I was jus saying this in my head 😂 Jon never disappoints rewatched twice now 😭 💯👍🏽
@LostBunnyAngelus
Жыл бұрын
To me when I was a kid oddly enough I thought the tuffet was a small chair or stool cushion. I actually always thought that the nursey rhyme was that she was supposed to be in class, but she wanted a snack. So she stole a bowl from the kitchen, and took a cushion went outside to eat her curds and whey and the spider was her tutor or teacher, so along came the spider who sat down beside her, and she got scared and ran away as to not get into trouble. Because, that's children logic for you. LOL I think my first memory of this nursey rhyme is from preschool.
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