chuff

Meanings

Adjective

• Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled.
• stupid; churlish; loutish.
• Pleased, proud.
• Swollen with fat.
• Swollen.

Adverb

• 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

Verb

• To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
• To break wind.
• Of a powder charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.

Related

Similar words

• chuffy

Origin

• 15th century, dialectal, from Middle English chuffe, in noun sense “stupid fellow”. Adjective sense “surly, displeased” from 1832.
• . Compare chug and puff.
• 1520s, in sense “swollen with fat”; circa 1860, British dialect, in sense “pleased”.