chuff
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- noun A rude, insensitive person; a boor.
- intransitive verb To produce or move with noisy puffing or explosive sounds: "Switch engines chuffed impatiently in busy rail yards” (Robert Paul Jordan).
- 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
- With a protesting chuff, the elevator creaked upward. — Dance Of Death
- Its brakes grabbed, the chuff-chuff slowing, white steam jetting from its sides, and the train — engineer leaning out its side window — slid into the station and on past us. — Time and Again
- Chuff-chuff, chuff-chuff — the engine, moving backward behind the car on this return run down the single track, was picking up speed, the conductor at the back of the car slamming the back-platform gate closed, and the second cop's helmet rose into sight at the head of the stairs we were racing toward. — Time and Again
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- Middle English chuffe.
- Imitative.
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/ (chŭf)/
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