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Chuff
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adjective British Dialect.
1.
chubby; fat.
2.
swollen with pride; proud; elated.
Origin:
1600–10; compare earlier chuff puffed cheek, perhaps representing Middle English cholle jowl2 conflated with uncertain elements
1600–10; compare earlier chuff puffed cheek, perhaps representing Middle English cholle jowl2 conflated with uncertain elements
noun
1.
a sound of or like the exhaust of a steam engine.
verb (used without object)
2.
to emit or proceed with chuffs: The train chuffed along.
Origin:
1910–15; imitative
1910–15; imitative
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Word Origin & History
chuff
"pleased, happy," c.1860, British dial., from obs. chuff "swollen with fat" (1530). A second British dial. chuff has an opposite meaning, "displeased, gruff" (1832), from chuff "rude fellow" (c.1450).
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