chuff
IPA: tʃˈʌf
noun
- A coarse or stupid fellow.
- (scriptwriting, uncountable) 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.
- (vulgar slang) The vagina.
- (vulgar slang) The anus.
verb
- (intransitive) To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
- (Britain, slang) To break wind.
- Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.
- (UK, euphemistic) Used as a replacement for obscenities, particularly fuck.
adjective
- (Britain) Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled.
- (UK, dialect) stupid; churlish; loutish.
- (Britain) Pleased, proud.
- (obsolete) Swollen with fat.
- (vulgar slang, of cheeks) Swollen.
adverb
- In a chuff manner.
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Examples of "chuff" in Sentences
- Griffith was off before the first chuff finished chuffing.
- Anyway, Charlotte is a treat to the eye as well as a pain in the chuff.
- The engine starts with grumpy whine and wet chuff, and then falls into a sullen idle.
- Big cats have their own repertoire of sounds e.g. the rumbled greeting of lionesses and the distinctive "chuff" of tigers.
- In the words of a delightful colloquialism where I come from: these pitchers are as keeping it as "tight as a gnat's chuff".
- Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches.
- He left me alone, I worked my nuts off and we locked up loads of villans and put them in prison and I squared away some lazy tossers who did chuff all for their money.
- There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut."
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