Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To produce or move with noisy puffing or explosive sounds.
- noun A noisy puffing or explosive sound, such as one made by a locomotive.
- noun A rude, insensitive person; a boor.
- noun The buttocks.
- noun The anus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cheek.
- noun A coarse, heavy, dull fellow; a surly or churlish person; an avaricious old fellow.
- Surly; churlish; ill-tempered.
- Chuffy; plump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A coarse or stupid fellow.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Stupid; churlish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective UK
Surly . - adjective UK, dialect
stupid ;churlish - noun A coarse or stupid fellow.
- verb transitive, slang To purposefully fail a standardized test in a conspicuous way.
- verb intransitive To make
noisy puffing sounds , as of asteam locomotive . - verb UK, informal To break wind.
- noun scriptwriting, uncountable Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
- adjective UK Pleased.
- adjective obsolete Swollen with fat.
- adjective vulgar slang, of cheeks
Swollen . - noun vulgar slang The
vagina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb blow hard and loudly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Big cats have their own repertoire of sounds e.g. the rumbled greeting of lionesses and the distinctive "chuff" of tigers.
doggdot.us 2009
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Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches.
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The engine starts with grumpy whine and wet chuff, and then falls into a sullen idle.
Nissan GT-R: A 'Halo Car' With Devil's Horns Dan Neil 2011
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In the words of a delightful colloquialism where I come from: these pitchers are as keeping it as "tight as a gnat's chuff".
St Louis Cardinals v Philadelphia Phillies - live! | Steve Busfield 2011
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He left me alone, I worked my nuts off and we locked up loads of villans and put them in prison and I squared away some lazy tossers who did chuff all for their money.
WARNING – BULLSHIT ALERT « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The engine starts with grumpy whine and wet chuff, and then falls into a sullen idle.
Nissan GT-R: A 'Halo Car' With Devil's Horns Dan Neil 2011
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There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut."
In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25 Joan Reinthaler 2010
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There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut."
In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25 Joan Reinthaler 2010
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Griffith was off before the first chuff finished chuffing.
BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010
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Anyway, Charlotte is a treat to the eye as well as a pain in the chuff.
Cheated. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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You’ve got to basically get to get off your chuff and take charge of the situation yourself.
A catamaran and a plan: desperate to get home, New Zealanders set sail across the Tasman Eva Corlett 2021
yarb commented on the word chuff
Citation on flexitone.
July 30, 2008
rolig commented on the word chuff
A British euphemism for female genitalia, as in "Phoenix is dryer than a nun's chuff," to quote the Urban Dictionary example.
August 18, 2008
kmocol01 commented on the word chuff
aha, thanks for that. I had a feeling 'chuff' and 'chuffed' were two completely different things in Brit slang
November 22, 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word chuff
"The monthly veterinary report of July 31, 2023 assessed that the pulmonary lesion was smaller. Bloodwork and chuff (blowhole exhalation samples) were unremarkable, with a very low white blood cell count in Lolita's chuff samples. In summary, the veterinarians were seeing incremental improvements in her health. Nonetheless, she was still fighting the chronic infection in her lung, and continued to receive daily Faropenem and antifungal medications."
August 19, 2023
vendingmachine commented on the word chuff
See prusten.
August 19, 2023