How To Use Chuff In A Sentence
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I'm included on this thing, although I haven't a chuffing clue what any of it means.
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Today's pop quiz is in honor of an actress for whom I once had precious little respect and whose casting over any number of other performers got me feeling dischuffed to the point of, if not beyond, churlishness until one day I found myself inexplicably fond of her and ashamed of my earlier thuggish disrespect.
Who Goes There - Pop Quiz
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At low engine speeds while the car is heading up slight grades, the Elantra engine chuffs and rocks in its cradle; and at moderate-to-highway speeds, if you kick it hard in the slats, the powertrain starts to whine with something approaching resentment.
Hyundai Takes a Bold Stand in the Compact Race
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The Chough (pronounced ‘chuff’) is an elegant member of the crow family, a little smaller than a Rook and distinguished by a bright red, slightly decurved bill and red legs and feet.
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Anyway, Charlotte is a treat to the eye as well as a pain in the chuff.
Cheated. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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I'm on a railway platform trying to get to work during a period of heavy storms (service is totally knacked) and I'm in uniform with a crowd around me seriously dis-chuffed and about to remove my nipple rings without unclipping them.
I HATE COMPUTERS ( a therapy intermission)
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So a first home goal produced a first home win in front of Chester's biggest crowd of the season, who gave the team and their chuffed new manager a standing ovation.
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I felt as though I were a train that was slowly chuffing off from the station, the wheel spokes moving in slow, forward motions.
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Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches.
Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
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Still early, before eight, but power marimba was pounding out of the restaurant and the chuffs of diesel machinery and screeching of steel-tracked dozers was coming down from the top of the bluff.
Kook
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The weather was fantastic, and the whole place seemed a thousand miles from home, especially when the steam trains chuffed past.
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Big cats have their own repertoire of sounds e.g. the rumbled greeting of lionesses and the distinctive "chuff" of tigers.
Doggdot.us
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Cady begins to be chuffed by her new status; she grows to like obsessing about food, looks and weight and is secretly thrilled by her licence to be bitchy and cruel.
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European space boffins are chuffed to announce that they have successfully 'surfed' the atmosphere of Venus, during a so-called 'aerodrag' experiment in which the solar panels of a space probe functioned as aerofoils skimming the top of the second planet's atmosphere.
The Register
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That's the good thing about having friends to stay… you've got the perfect excuse to get off your chuff and go and do something you haven't yet gotten around to.
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Draught horses are led around the smaller ring, and nearby dozens of stationary engines chuff, splutter and bounce on individual pitches.
Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
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In a country where goat-propelled carts are de rigueur and people stop and stare in wonder at a 35-year-old Mack truck chuffing and chugging along the rutted roads.
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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.
In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
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The engine starts with grumpy whine and wet chuff, and then falls into a sullen idle.
Nissan GT-R: A 'Halo Car' With Devil's Horns
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Eh! they was set up about it, was t 'cows; I'd niver seen 'em so chuffy.
Tales of the Ridings
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Disney World's Animal Kingdom team has sorted elephant calls into trumpets, snorts, croaks, revs, chuffs, noisy rumbles, loud rumbles, and rumbles.
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I've got a nice wee part time gig at the National Library starting next month and I'm well chuffed.
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Alan asks her where the chuff she's going
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It's safest for this magazine's sanity if I substitute the words "chuffing" and "todd" for the concomitant seven- and four-letter words Bruce quietly drops everywhere, through habit rather than guile or anger; fricative and plosive, they're actually right in almost all contexts.
Bruce Robinson: 'I'm just going to take my liver for a wash'
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For four weeks the steam-powered dahabeah chuffed along the green river, stopping to let the travelers stroll among sunbaked ruins or make dusty forays to distant temples arid tombs.
The Five of Hearts
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‘I'm chuffed that so many came from York,’ Warters told the Evening Press after his victory over Ashton.
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Both the drivers I saw caught were in Czech cars and they looked pretty dischuffed.
Archive 2006-09-01
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Of course, it still could be that when I get to the Arena no-one will know a chuffing thing, in which case there may be a retraction on Saturday…
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So being the polite chap I am, I had to get to the back of the chuffing queue
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British troops 'chuffed' to receive Queen's Christmas message of support
'We Ask A Lot Of You'
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And in reality, I am so chuffed that all these wonderful people care about me (no, tahnan, "chuffed" is not a dirty word), and it is more than I deserve, by far, and I'm not asking for more than that, really, I'm not.
February 22nd, 2003
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I remember a classmate being so chuffed when he figured out how to say "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" in Latin...he peppered his conversation with it for ages. "leones, tigresque, ursaeque, eheu!" was his phrase.
Confessions and Comparisons
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But the latter occur in profusion, too: pirootin ': Messing around; from "pirouetting." tickler: A flat pocket flask. favorance: Resemblance. gumshot: Slingshot. throddy: Well rounded; plump; chuffy. in the room of: In place of.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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I wonder what chuffs Scorsese more: Losing to yet another actor-director although only Costner, of the three who have beaten him, really is a subpar director, or losing to a boxing movie after his own boxing movie failed to win.
Monday bloody Monday
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A good decision on my part, methinks, and Lesley is really chuffed (me too:)) as it means we'll be seeing a lot of each other IC.
October 17th, 2005
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I was nervous, but rather chuffed to have bagged such a fine specimen.
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If imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery, his dad James should feel chuffed.
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And Cheryl Morgan was, to say the least, righteously dischuffed by the slur on other reviewers, by the implicit assumption that "the reviewer was bribed to tell me such lies" is so sensible a reaction that one can jump right past the question of whether to the question of how.
Archive 2006-06-01
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The citizen sits in that studio, gets to express herself, gets applauded, and goes home feeling chuffed.
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Im absolutely chuffed, they're one of my favourite bands and I've never seen them live before.
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Why is no-one chuffing furious that BTP have a ‘marketing manager’ at all … there is no ‘market’ in policing, at least not in the way that BTP intend it here.
Just To Show I Didn’t Make It Up…….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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A guitar with a dollar bill stuffed between the strings is how Cash produced the "chuffing" sound to imitate trains on his recordings.
HeraldTimesOnline.com
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But they have responded extraordinarily and we feel chuffed that our procedures have worked.
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And then, the little two-carriage train chuffed in to the platform and we were back together once more.
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If Smith is such a great constituency Member of Parliament, why did he not get off his chuff and write to the Minister about the issues of which he speaks?
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Rejoiced was I that my sisters should have this glimpse of her, and off we drove to her; but I must own that we were disappointed in this visit, for there was a sort of _chuffiness_, and a sawdust kind of unconnected cutshortness in her manner, which we could not like.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1
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Griffith was off before the first chuff finished chuffing.
BLASTIN’ THE BLUES
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E'en shall I be dischuffed to't knickers, ee by gum.
Bastardo
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Joe thought New York was amazing, and he was "chuffed" to be in the Big Apple.
Brian Oxman: A Night on the Town With Joe the Plumber
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Why is no-one chuffing furious that BTP have a ‘marketing manager’
Just To Show I Didn’t Make It Up…….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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‘We don't need any chuffing GPS’ he says in his distinctly upper-crust, yet man-of-the-world accent.
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Understandably, the locals weren't too chuffed - they started a campaign and got a bit of a petition going to stop the legendary hell raisers from living in their midst.
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Let me explain what open-source is and then why I'm so chuffed.
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The Minister needs to get off his chuff over the summer months and get on top of this portfolio.
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Luckily my deputy and I were having a chat today (about how much she wants me for next year * chuffs*) and she thought to check.
Five Random things make an entry
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Deliverance Dobbins, a frumpish, fizgig of a maid, ever complaining of bodily ills though her chuffy cheeks were red as pippins, reported that one day when she had gone for simples she had seen strange, dead things in the jars of M. Picot's dispensary.
Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
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Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of
Ulysses
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I even ordered a new uniform, though I'm still not chuffed about paying for it.
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Now 30, he's recently been awarded the accolade of Renaissance Man For The Millennium, though he doesn't seem too chuffed about it.
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We wanted more squabbles, and fighting, the biffs to the back head, chuffs to the shoulder, the grabbing, the hauling, the punching.
Supernatural Season 4 Cutting Room Floor Wish List - Pink Raygun.com
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In the UK "chuffed" means "happy" as in "I was well chufffed to pick the winner in that race".
Who Goes There - Pop Quiz
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Tennessee, her chuffy hand on his shoulder, for she could reach it as he knelt, held her head close to his, and looked at them too with wide black eyes.
Down the Ravine
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Young males and solitaries surged in from all directions, squee-eeing, clicking, chuffing loudly, and performing incredible aquabatics as they came.
The Chronicles of Pern
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chuffing," or port noise, with a dispersing cone placed at the mouth of the port on the rear panel, this intended to promote laminar air flow to mimic the behavior of a long, flared port.
Stereophile RSS Feed
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This train was very late and didn't come chuffing in apologetically until 10 p.m.
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Her overgrown son is chuffing on a final gasper at a back door fire escape.
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Why should the ministry not get off its chuff, do the work, and come up with a decision?
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Mind you, the meal that resulted from my middle-class organic shopping spree was chuffing gorgeous.
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To this day he has not got off his chuff and gone to the police or the Serious Fraud Office, to say that he wants to help the people who lost money.
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I can only study at home when Thomas has gone off to bed, and what with one thing and another I'm left with about an hour a night to work my way through these chuffing text books.
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So we felt pretty chuffed with ourselves when we left Opua, as if we'd had something to do with rearranging the elements.
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he couldn't give a chuff
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They threw it in for free because it's President's Day weekend and I was so chuffed that I clapped my hands in glee.
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Among tonight's highlights, Matt boards a train that chuffs its way to Britain's most remote railway station and Julia heads to Glencoe to hunt for a "hidden valley that lives up to its name".
The weekend's TV highlights
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I'm also seriously chuffed that I got tickets for two nights of Rolando Villazón in Rigoletto.
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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.
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At first I thought we had a 50-50 chance and after four or five heart-stopping moments we were chuffed to bits.
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Mam still runs the Black Dog, and she'd be sure chuffed if ye did nae stop in for a drink.
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The old woman continued to muse aloud, a monotonous irritating sound, while Elizabeth thought concentratedly, startled once, when she heard the winding-engine chuff quickly, and the brakes skirr with a shriek.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
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The young art lot are always chuffed when Ferry turns up.
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We were friends at school, and I guess I felt chuffed that someone did have a crush on me, but I never acted on it because there was no point.
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Obviously most people visit Windsor in chuffing big air-conditioned coaches, and - on the evidence of yesterday - most coach tours now seem to also insist on a uniform for all passengers.
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On this makeshift stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid.
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Yet he should be chuffed at how history is filling our newspapers, sparking debate, piquing our interest.
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On sitting on the grass outside the lager, I remember how chuffy Tom & I felt and also him saying "Just think, Stan, these people going by, are now going home to a nice farmhouse tea".
Stan Prout
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Critically Tuned Flared Port minimizes port noise ( "chuffing") for good low frequency extension with low port noise, resulting in natural, full-bodied sound with rich bass.
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Sorry to keep banging on about the same old subject, but is there any stopping chuffing Chelsea?
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See, i like my men chuffy and rough, so Andy is a little too smooth for me to get the sexy vibe from, but got-damn is he not the cutest thing on the face of this earth?!?!?!
Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
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She was chuffed at / about getting a pay rise.
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Still feeling slightly dischuffed I took him up on it and was persuaded that Mr Chris 'was a god Idea (despite having been there only last thursday).
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Her diaries and letters reveal a woman determined to succeed as a singer and who was chuffed with her success and the trappings that came with it.
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The good news chuffed him up and he went back to do the experiment again.
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The switch to bobsledding paid off when Schuffenhauer earned a spot on the U.S. team for 2002
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One fellow was dischuffed at only finding a bar catering for ladies who like ladies, another was irked at only finding somewhere good five minutes shy of closing time and further moans noted the woeful lack of sleaze venues.
The Croydonian
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‘The Audio Bullys‘aren't just great - they're chuffing fantastic!
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With all but the very last of the swimmers in, some of the boats began to chuff into harbour as well, the pilots waving to their friends.
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Well that makes a chuffing bit of difference if you are anyway outside the M25.
Scott Bryan: I'd rather be a minus than be on Google +
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She was becoming increasingly dischuffed with Spammy's evasive or just plain bewildering behaviour, acutely so that evening.
Country of the Blind
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And so, to have at least one part of me moving while I chat and listen to him, I've played Zuma to make me feel like I'm achieving something besides sitting on my chuff.
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Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of
Ulysses
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Partly hidden though it was by a nearby apartment block, there's no mistaking it in silhouette: a chuffing great, perfectly symmetrical trapezoid, towering on the horizon and always, always far bigger than you expect it to be.
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Its seen as a bad thing when Weaver chuffs away, but Susan Sarandan in The Lovely Bones is seen as enriching the character...
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The train didn't stop for very long, and soon chuffed off leaving the feline beneath the station clock.
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China's recent freak-out over a long-planned U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, its obstreperousness at the United Nations Copenhagen climate summit and its chuffiness on sanctions against Iran have underscored the non-democracy's new swagger as the healthiest post-crash economy.
Edmonton Sun
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I felt quite chuffed that I'd made him feel special, especially considering I sang that same song to a pub full of people very weekend.
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how the chuff should I know?
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What has brought on this discourse about niceness, is a meme in which my friend mom-nos has been nominated as a nice person, and in turn has nominated me, which really chuffs me, especially coming from her.
Archive 2007-09-01
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I ` m not too chuffed that Jackie is still in gainful employment since the recent revelations about Damian Green etc, something which didn ` t seem to get a mention on the BBC tonight.
Credit Crunch? More Senior Officers; that’s what we need! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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One Frog does not balance out three million dischuffed Mail readers.
EU Referendum
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But at the time I was kind of chuffed at answering “Argentina” after holding my hand up for a few minutes and listening to five or six wrong guesses.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country
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Father Dougal: Sure it is, and I bet all the doctors are chuffed that they'll get all that wonga to do what the feck they like with.
Society daily: 14.07.10
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On this makeshift stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid.
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He is dischuffed to find the felines are actually fakes and belong to Baroness Spatz.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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Installed around 18 months ago at a cost just a tad short of £500,000, the Fort William turntable was intended to be a novel tourist attraction to augment the steam train service that chuffs along the line during the summer months.
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It's safest for this magazine's sanity if I substitute the words "chuffing" and "todd" for the concomitant seven- and four-letter words Bruce quietly drops everywhere, through habit rather than guile or anger; fricative and plosive, they're actually right in almost all contexts.
Bruce Robinson: 'I'm just going to take my liver for a wash'
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Not even a life spent chuffing down 17 packs of Lambert & Butler a day while lying on a sunbed, face slathered in vegetable oil, fresh from a chemical peel, taking occasional breaks only to have one's skin scrubbed with sandpaper, rusty nails and acid will age a person as swiftly as waxing sentimental about objects from their childhood that were, unquestionably, crap.
The Walkman has gone, and I must move on
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It wasn't long before Lee landed his first pike weighing in at 9lb 11 oz and was also chuffed with himself.
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She continued to sidle at Mr Chuffey with looks of sharp hostility, and to defy him with many other ironical remarks, uttered in that low key which commonly denotes suppressed indignation; until the entrance of the teaboard, and a request from Mrs Jonas that she would make tea at a side – table for the party that had unexpectedly assembled, restored her to herself.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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But it turns out that "chuffing" is not the same as pleasing!
Teen Titans Take the Town Part 4
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I was so chuffed that I gave my old, trusty typewriter to her daughter without even a second thought.
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Nothing suits me but the fluffy, chuffy things with a tilt to them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
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In the words of a delightful colloquialism where I come from: these pitchers are as keeping it as "tight as a gnat's chuff".
St Louis Cardinals v Philadelphia Phillies - live! | Steve Busfield
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Image: Jane Hutt is chuffed she's finally impressed somebody
Archive 2008-08-01
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I could do no less for the only person in the chat who understood what I meant when I said I was "chuffed" without explanation.
CJOB Interview: Shout Out to My Tweeps
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There will be a lot of chuffed people today, including everyone who cares about Britain's heritage, all at the National Railway Museum and York tourist bosses.
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Although chuffed I shrugged that off as a polite, but unrealistic, compliment.
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Nelson Collingwood; pretty Mrs. Sackville; Mrs. Captain Chuff (Mrs. Commodore Chuff we call her), were all there; the latter, of course, in the vermilion tabinet, which, splendid as it is, is nothing in comparison to the splendour of the ‘Sarcophagus.’
The Book of Snobs
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The place had a suspicious appearance, and a pack of hounds in full cry rushed from the kitchen, and, while in the act of leaping the stile and palings, were arrested almost in mid air by a chuffy voice crying from within:
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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The story at the zoo at the time was that the tiger had jumped out in reaction to a different woman, a regular visitor, who often "chuffed" at the tigers to get replies (this is a soft friendly greeting, also known as "prusten").
Frans de Waal: Jump, Tiger, Jump!
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The players will feel chuffed with their victory, but they will know they have not won the war yet.
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The whistles and chuffs grew louder and faster, as if his arm were cranking up the sounds into the deafening and intimidating roar.
Sluggers: Magic in the Outfield
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The Day Job hangs over me like the sword of chuffing Damocles.
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Considering I didn't even think I'd make it through the introductory lecture never mind the whole semester I am pretty chuffed.
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I hope this Government will get off its chuff and properly support and resource the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services, so that it can do a better job for our children.
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We're pretty sure that chuffed translates to "psyched" or "pumped" or the like, but if it's actually some sort of South African curse word, we apologize profusely in advance.
Wired Top Stories
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I was much chuffed, and from then on, I've never passed up an opportunity to tell people how large-hearted my father is.
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Deano was obviously chuffed to break his duck.
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Deliverance Dobbins, a frumpish, fizgig of a maid, ever complaining of bodily ills though her chuffy cheeks were red as pippins, reported that one day when she had gone for simples she had seen strange, dead things in the jars of M. Picot's dispensary.
Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
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I'm chuffed to have won
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And if anyone can tell me why my beautiful scrabble tiles don't show up, I'd be well chuffed.
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My husband, Charlie, is chuffed about it and he is pleased that I am doing well.
