Definitions
Etymologies
- 1957, from dialectical chuff, originally meaning “puffed with fat”. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And in reality, I am so chuffed that all these wonderful people care about me (no, tahnan, "chuffed" is not a dirty word), and it is more than I deserve, by far, and I'm not asking for more than that, really, I'm not.”
“We're pretty sure that chuffed translates to "psyched" or "pumped" or the like, but if it's actually some sort of South African curse word, we apologize profusely in advance.”
“But at the time I was kind of chuffed at answering “Argentina” after holding my hand up for a few minutes and listening to five or six wrong guesses.”
“I could do no less for the only person in the chat who understood what I meant when I said I was "chuffed" without explanation.”
“Joe thought New York was amazing, and he was "chuffed" to be in the Big Apple.”
“The story at the zoo at the time was that the tiger had jumped out in reaction to a different woman, a regular visitor, who often "chuffed" at the tigers to get replies (this is a soft friendly greeting, also known as "prusten").”
“In the UK "chuffed" means "happy" as in "I was well chufffed to pick the winner in that race".”
“British troops 'chuffed' to receive Queen's Christmas message of support”
“While the municipality is "chuffed" with this first-time payment, it has already started cutting services to defaulters.”
“Mr Bell said he was 'chuffed' to have been selected as a finalist, but could not take all the credit for the success of his business because it was a team effort.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chuffed’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Good for Academics
Gahh!! Study!
supplant, usurp, finagle, winnow, draconian, abut, collude, swindle, objectify, incite, decadent, obstinate and 327 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 215 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
epithalamium, hustings, verger, atheling, moue, pendulous, pendragon, funicular, pericope, fettle, eleemosynary, moot and 160 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Joshee Word List
gash, engross, entail, stoke, ode, vacillate, aspersion, asperity, clan, kith, prospect, nag and 229 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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Favourite Words
Just a bunch of words I like and wish I used more often in everyday speech.
adroit, soporific, ostensibly, prolific, auspicious, brio, mucilage, bromide, opprobrium, aplomb, invective, recalcitrant and 114 more...
Tweets
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frindley Was chuffed to discover that I Hate Perfume had been chosen as list of the day. Aug 12, 2010
thesaraheffect Thanks to Hugh Laurie who introduced me to "chuffed to bits." Sep 18, 2009
rolig Is this word related to the British slang use of chuff? Aug 18, 2008
yarb Citation on miffed. Aug 2, 2008
jay.dugger I like "egoboo" better, though the words only overlap at their definitions' edges. Nov 28, 2007
sonofgroucho As in "fair chuffed." Oct 12, 2007
john From Builder.au: "...geeks just aren't chuffed with corporate culture." Jul 3, 2007