chuffed

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The article argued that chuffed was an exemplary Janus or reversible word, because there was reputable authority of good writers who understood it to mean gruntled, and other equally good writers who understood it to mean disgruntled.

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  • The article argued that chuffed was an exemplary Janus or reversible word, because there was reputable authority of good writers who understood it to mean gruntled, and other equally good writers who understood it to mean disgruntled. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
  • But Carol is chuffed, amused and only mildly embarrassed (I think!) by the attention - concluding the following things: —  Word Magazine -
  • I was most chuffed, actually. —  wongaBlog
  • He declared that if one needed to distinguish them, one said chuffed to fuck or chuffed to arseholes or chuffed pink or bo-chuffed to mean ` gruntled, 'and dead chuffed to mean —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
  • 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. —  Wired Top Stories
 

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