chuff
Plural: chuffs
Verb
Verb Forms: chuffed, chuffing, chuffs
- To make a dull, puffing sound, like a steam engine.
- blow hard and loudly
- To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
- To break wind.
- Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.
- Used as a replacement for obscenities, particularly fuck.
Adj
- Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled.
- stupid; churlish; loutish.
- Pleased, proud.
- Swollen with fat.
- Swollen.
Adv
- In a chuff manner.
Noun
- A coarse or stupid fellow.
- Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
- A noisy puffing sound.
- A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
- The vagina.
- The anus.
Adjective
- Gruff, surly, or ill-tempered in manner or appearance.
Examples
- His CHUFF expression during the game hinted at a difficult set of tiles.
- Oh chuff off! I'm so chuffing fed up with all of the spam posts on my timeline.
- The car behind was following too close — it was right up my chuff.
- The steam from his tea seemed to CHUFF in time with his slow, deliberate tile choices.
Origin / Etymology
15th century, dialectal, from Middle English chuffe (“a rustic, boor”), in noun sense “stupid fellow”. Adjective sense “surly, displeased” from 1832.
Scrabble Score: 16
chuff: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordchuff: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chuff: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
chuff: valid Words With Friends Word