chuffy
Americanadjective
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Origin of chuffy
Example Sentences
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Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
What were you so chuffy to Ermie, for?
From The Children of Wilton Chase by L. T. Meade
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
Then off I goes arter the baker, who was one o’ your red-faced, chuffy little chaps, one o’ them coves as has sech a precious good opinion o’ themselves.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
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