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chuffy

American  
[chuhf-ee] / ˈtʃʌf i /

adjective

chuffier, chuffiest
  1. churlish; surly.


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Etymology

Origin of chuffy

First recorded in 1690–1700; chuff 1 + -y 1

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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

Nothing suits me but the fluffy, chuffy things with a tilt to them.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

What were you so chuffy to Ermie, for?

From The Children of Wilton Chase by Meade, L. T.

“But, by the way,” he said, stopping short, and sticking one finger on his forehead, “is this Sir Hampton the chuffy old gentleman we saw at the steeplechase?”

From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by Fenn, George Manville

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