chuffy
Americanadjective
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The international set. though, was not about to travel to the bottom of the world, board a chuffy little train and travel for five hours to the edge of nowhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eh! they was set up about it, was t' cows; I'd niver seen 'em so chuffy.
From Tales of the Ridings by C. Vaughan
However, it don’t do for us to be soft, so I says quite chuffy, as if I’d cut up rough— “What d’yer mean?”
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
What were you so chuffy to Ermie, for?
From The Children of Wilton Chase by L. T. Meade
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