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Definition of Chuffy
1. a. Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.
Definition of Chuffy
1. Adjective. Fat or puffed out in the cheeks. ¹
2. Adjective. Rough; clownish; surly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chuffy
1. plump [adj -FIER, -FIEST] - See also: plump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chuffy
Literary usage of Chuffy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... many-flowered, all the disk-flowers subtended by n« ino-lly quite distinct
chuffy bracts, some of them not rarely fertili;: ray-flowers usually nuit ous ..."
2. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1851)
"But does chuffy do nothing for me? : Oh yes, indeed he does. ... While I am noting
down these remarks Old chuffy is sitting at the opened door of his cage, ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"The proper meaning of chubby, chuffy, seems to be full-cheeked. Fr. dodu, a fat
chops or chuff; fat, plump, chuffy, round-cheeked, full-bodied. ..."
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