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chuff

/t͡ʃʌf/

adjective 5
noun 6
verb 4
adverb 1
forms 5

adjective5

(UK) Pleased, proud.
Chubby.
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(UK) Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled.
- He refused to subscribe, he who had always given so largely to the cause; he was chuff, haughty, overbearing, and seemed bent upon antagonising every prominent suggestion that was made. — 1872
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(dialect, UK) stupid; churlish; loutish.
- such chuff Fellows , who would not willingly allow their Children any Pleasures — 1728
(no longer used) Swollen with fat.

noun6

A noisy puffing sound.
A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
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(slang, vulgar) The anus.
- The car behind was following too close — it was right up my chuff.
(slang, vulgar) The vagina.
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A coarse or stupid fellow.
- Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? / No, ye fat chuffs, I would your store were here! — 1597
Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.

verb4

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To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
- The horses stumbled along, coughing and chuffing. — 1912
(UK, slang) To break wind.
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(UK, informal) Used as a replacement for obscenities, particularly fuck.
- Oh chuff off! I'm so chuffing fed up with all of the spam posts on my timeline.
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Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.
- Double base propellants often require ignition pressures of as much as 400 psia to avoid the problem of chuffing or hangfires. — 1967

adverb1

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In a chuff manner.
- Macbeth when he talk'd very chuff About fighting -- how soon he got floor'd With a yard of cold steel by Macduff, And mine was that Wonderful Sword. — 1842

forms

chuffed · chuffing · chuffs · more chuff · most chuff

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