chuff

n.
A rude, insensitive person; a boor.

[Middle English chuffe.]

chuff² (chŭf)
intr.v., chuffed, chuf·fing, chuffs.
To produce or move with noisy puffing or explosive sounds: "Switch engines chuffed impatiently in busy rail yards" (Robert Paul Jordan).

n.
A noisy puffing or explosive sound, such as one made by a locomotive.

[Imitative.]

(chuft)

adjective
Pleased; satisfied.

Etymology
From English dialect chuff (pleased, puffed, swollen with pride)

Displeased; annoyed.
[From chuff (boor, churl), from Middle English chuffe.

Usage
"And she was a little chuffed at Elliot's infamous plug for Harvie's SBS screening while accepting his Oscar on stage in Los Angeles." — When Oscar Met Harvie; Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia); Mar 12, 2004.

"The former England midfielder told Sky Sports News, 'We should not have been here, we should have won the game at our place but we're here, we've done well and I'm just chuffed to bits.'" — Millwall Down Tranmere to Set Up Clash With Sunderland in Semi; The Star (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); Mar 18, 2004.

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noun

An unrefined, rude person: barbarian, boor, churl, Philistine, vulgarian, yahoo. See good/bad.

(DOD, NATO) The characteristic of some rockets to burn intermittently and with an irregular noise.

Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - bondeknold, vragsten

2.
v. intr. - tøffe
n. - tøffen

3.
adj. - tyk, gnaven, fornøjet

Nederlands (Dutch)
verblijden, puffen (b.v. trein)

Français (French)
1.
n. - vache, rustre

2.
v. intr. - marcher en haletant, haleter
n. - bouffée, souffle, halètement

3.
adj. - potelé, joufflu, rondelet, très fier

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Rüpel, Flegel

2.
v. - aufheitern, puffen
n. - Puffen

3.
adj. - pummelig, rundlich, dick, stolz, hochmütig

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - αγκομαχώ, ξεφυσώ (σαν ατμομηχανή)
n. - ξεφύσημα ή ήχος ατμομηχανής, τσουφ

Italiano (Italian)
sbuffare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - resfolegar
n. - rústico (m)

Русский (Russian)
пыхтеть

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - persona orgullosa

2.
v. intr. - contentarse, alegrarse
n. - alegría

3.
adj. - gordito, rechoncho, inflado de orgullo

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - tuffa, göra jätteglad (vard.)
n. - tuffande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
发出轧轧声前进

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 發出軋軋聲前進

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 시골뜨기, 구두쇠

2.
v. intr. - 칙칙 폭폭 소리를 내다
n. - 칙칙 폭폭

3.
adj. - 살찐, 잘난 체 하는

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 田舎者

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يصدر صوتا كالقطار (الاسم) صوت يشبه صوت القطار, ساذج من الريف, بخيل (صفه) بدين, مليء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדם גס, אדם חסר-חינוך, איכר‬
v. intr. - ‮טרטר או השמיע קולות-נפץ תוך כדי תנועה, נשם ונשף‬
n. - ‮קול נשיפה‬
adj. - ‮מסורבל, שמן, גאוותן‬

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