2. Verb. (third-person singular of chuff) ¹
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Definition of Chuffs
1. chuff [v] - See also: chuff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chuffs
Literary usage of Chuffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Bray, in the County of Berks by Charles Kerry (1861)
"In the vicinity of chuffs is— BUDD'S LANE, mentioned in 1360 (SCR}, and Budd's
meadows, so called from a family who held this land at an early period. ..."
2. The Plays of Philip Massinger: In Four Volumes by Philip Massinger (1813)
"Where is it said that these chuffs " had made two good meals before ?" Is not
the whole tendency of the speech to shew that they starved themselves in the ..."
3. The Aldus Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1909)
"No, ye fat chuffs; I would your store were 81. ... "chuffs"; a chuff, according
to Richardson, is a "burly, swollen man; swollen either with gluttony and ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"To see these chuffs, that every day may spend A soldier's entertainment for a year,
... Where is it said that these chuffs ‘ had made two good meals before? ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"Mrs. chuffs stories about the naval nobility grew quite faint : and kind little
Mrs. Sackville became uneasy, and went upstairs to look at the children— not ..."
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