Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a chuffy manner; rudely; surlily; clownishly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Clownishly; surlily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
clownish manner. - adverb In a
surly manner.
Etymologies
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chuffy + -ly
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Examples
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-- ja wohl! "he went on chuffily, summing up: latent fever, -- the very lips were blue, dry as husks;" he would go, -- oui?
Margret Howth, a Story of To-day Rebecca Harding Davis 1870
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-- ja wohl! '' he went on chuffily, summing up: latent fever, -- the very lips were blue, dry as husks; ` ` he would go, -- oui?
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