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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