adj. and adv. (old).—Rough; boisterous; indecent. Also as intj. = hey-day.

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  1592.  BRETON, Pilgrimage to Paradise, 16. To sweare and stare until we come to shore, then RIFTY-TUFTY each one to his skore.

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  1606.  CHAPMAN, The Gentleman Usher, v. 1.

        Were I as Vince is, I would handle you
In RUFTY-TUFTY wise.

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  1606.  Wily Beguiled [HAWKINS, The Origin of the English Drama, iii. 302]. RUFTY, TUFTY; are you so frolick?

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  d. 1821.  KEATS, The Cap and Bells, 86.

        Powder’d bag-wigs and RUFFY-TUFFY heads
Of cinder wenches meet and soil each other.

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