chuffy
Example Sentences
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The international set. though, was not about to travel to the bottom of the world, board a chuffy little train and travel for five hours to the edge of nowhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, it don’t do for us to be soft, so I says quite chuffy, as if I’d cut up rough— “What d’yer mean?”
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville
“But, by the way,” he said, stopping short, and sticking one finger on his forehead, “is this Sir Hampton the chuffy old gentleman we saw at the steeplechase?”
From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by Fenn, George Manville
Then off I goes arter the baker, who was one o’ your red-faced, chuffy little chaps, one o’ them coves as has sech a precious good opinion o’ themselves.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville
