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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A coarse, heavy, dull fellow; a surly or churlish person; an avaricious old fellow.
  2. Surly; churlish; ill-tempered.
  3. n. A cheek.
  4. Chuffy; plump.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Surly.
  2. adj. Swollen.
  3. n. A coarse or stupid fellow.
  4. n. Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
  5. n. The anus.
  6. v. To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
  7. v. To purposefully fail a standardized test in a conspicuous way.
  8. v. To break wind.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A coarse or stupid fellow.
  2. adj. Stupid; churlish.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. blow hard and loudly

Etymologies

  1. Middle English chuffe.Imitative.

Examples

  • “Big cats have their own repertoire of sounds e.g. the rumbled greeting of lionesses and the distinctive "chuff" of tigers.”

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  • “The engine starts with grumpy whine and wet chuff, and then falls into a sullen idle.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Nissan GT-R: A 'Halo Car' With Devil's Horns

  • “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

  • “Griffith was off before the first chuff finished chuffing.”

    Simon & Schuster: BLASTIN’ THE BLUES

  • “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.”

    The Washington Post: In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25

  • “In the first 10 minutes of the game (after, I must chuff, I did get one batter out), a sneaking runner made a judgment call to come back to first - catcher threw the ball to me at about 300 kph (felt like that anyway!), which bounced on the hard packed dirt around me, clipped my thumb and bounced into the side of my face.”

    Exciting times!

  • “Anyway, Charlotte is a treat to the eye as well as a pain in the chuff.”

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  • “Oh, and one of them asks if your sister could return the right sleeve from his favourite sweater, he lost it somewhere in her chuff.”

    The Beautiful South Split, Three People Vaguely Miffed

  • “Guthrie, for some reason RR is a bit troll resistant, for one thing everyone is reasonably terse, for another we have the reputation of taking no chuff.”

    Open Letter to the Climate Science Community:

  • “North Kareer off a cliff have a massive army think it's the 3rd biggest in the world so why the chuff should the Yanks get involved when all it has to do is provide South Korea & Japan with support.”

    WHISTLING WALKING PAST THE GRAVEYARD..

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  • kmocol01 aha, thanks for that. I had a feeling 'chuff' and 'chuffed' were two completely different things in Brit slang Nov 21, 2009
  • rolig A British euphemism for female genitalia, as in "Phoenix is dryer than a nun's chuff," to quote the Urban Dictionary example. Aug 18, 2008
  • yarb Citation on flexitone. Jul 30, 2008

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