chuffy
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- chuffily adverb
- chuffiness noun
Etymology
Origin of chuffy
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
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
He be very chuffy and masterful, and looks all round as he goo away, as though he wur lookin’ to see what ur would take next.
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard
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