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  1. noun A rude, insensitive person; a boor.
  2. intransitive verb To produce or move with noisy puffing or explosive sounds: "Switch engines chuffed impatiently in busy rail yards” (Robert Paul Jordan).
  3. noun A noisy puffing or explosive sound, such as one made by a locomotive.

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  • The engine began to chuff-chuff-chuff and moved out of the station. —  The Magic Faraway Tree
  • Coyote heard the harsh chuff-chuff of Kohl's hush puppy firing twice, followed by a piercing scream. —  Carrie
  • Lynley and Nkata watched the constable shut the door on the panda car and whisk Jack Beard away, back to his interrupted morning meal in Bayswater where, the vagrant told them, he was expected to 'help with the washing up as a payback for the chuff, see. " —  In the Presence of the Enemy
  • WHUFFT, chuff, chuff ... —  Timegod's World
  • Vandam heard a distant chaff-chuff-chuff. —  The Key to Rebecca
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English chuffe.
  2. Imitative.

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  1. from Middle English chuffe, choffe, a boor; origin unknown; cf. chub, 2.
  2. Cf. chub, chubby, and chuck.
  3. Cf. chuff, n., and chubby.
 

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