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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

Example Sentences

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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 Vaughan, C.

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)

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 Fenn, George Manville

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