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chuff

1[chuhf]
–noun
1. a rustic.
2. a boor; churl.
3. a miserly fellow.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME chuffe, of obscure orig.

chuff

2[chuhf, choof]
–adjective British Dialect.
1. chubby; fat.
2. swollen with pride; proud; elated.

Origin:
1600–10; cf. earlier chuff puffed cheek, perh. repr. ME cholle jowl 2 conflated with uncert. elements

chuff

3[chuhf]
–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; imit.
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chuff 1   (chŭf)   
n.  A rude, insensitive person; a boor.

[Middle English chuffe.]
chuff 2   (chŭf)   
intr.v.   chuffed, chuf·fing, chuffs
To produce or move with noisy puffing or explosive sounds: "Switch engines chuffed impatiently in busy rail yards" (Robert Paul Jordan).
n.  A noisy puffing or explosive sound, such as one made by a locomotive.

[Imitative.]
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