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Chambers 20th Century Dictionary does not recognize the use of tuffet for a piece of furniture, and the Oxford English Dictionary says that it only perhaps means hassock or footstool, suggesting that this usage is due to a misunderstanding of the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.
Word Origin and History for tuffet. n. 1550s, little tuft, from Old French touffel (with exchange of diminutive suffix -et for French -el), diminutive of touffe (see tuft). Obsolete except in the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet (1843), where it has been felt to mean hassock, footstool..