chuff

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /t͡ʃʌf/    美 /t͡ʃʌf/|/t͡ʃɐf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A coarse or stupid fellow.
    — Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? / No, ye fat chuffs, I would your store were here!
  2. Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot. uncountable
  3. The vagina. slang,vulgar
  4. A noisy puffing sound. countable,uncountable
    — Then the brass bell on top of the boiler rings out and a single massive chuff! of steam issues from the bowels of the loco. Then another chuff! – a blast of steam – another chuff! and the huge drive shafts tighten against the wheels.
  5. The anus. slang,vulgar
    — The car behind was following too close — it was right up my chuff.
  6. A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive. intransitive
    — The horses stumbled along, coughing and chuffing.
  2. Used as a replacement for obscenities, particularly fuck. UK,euphemistic
    — Oh chuff off! I'm so chuffing fed up with all of the spam posts on my timeline.
  3. To break wind. UK,slang
  4. Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.
    — 1967 Leo Allen Lukenas: The ignition transient in small solid propellant rocket motors. Princeton University Double base propellants often require ignition pressures of as much as 400 psia to avoid the problem of chuffing or hangfires.
形容词 adj.
  1. Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled. UK
    — He refused to subscribe, he who had always given so largely to the cause; he was chuff, haughty, overbearing, and seemed bent upon antagonising every prominent suggestion that was made.
  2. Pleased, proud. UK
  3. stupid; churlish; loutish. UK,dialectal
    — such chuff Fellows , who would not willingly allow their Children any Pleasures
  4. Swollen with fat. obsolete
  5. Chubby.
副词 adv.
  1. In a chuff manner.
    — Macbeth when he talk'd very chuff About fighting -- how soon he got floor'd With a yard of cold steel by Macduff, And mine was that Wonderful Sword.

词形变化

more chuff comparative most chuff superlative more chuff comparative most chuff superlative chuffs plural chuffs present,singular,third-person chuffing participle,present chuffed participle,past chuffed past chuffs plural more chuff comparative most chuff superlative chuffs plural chuffs present,singular,third-person chuffing participle,present chuffed participle,past chuffed past

词汇关系

衍生词
gnat's chuff the chuff

词源

词源 1
15th century, dialectal, from Middle English chuffe (“a rustic, boor”), in noun sense “stupid fellow”. Adjective sense “surly, displeased” from 1832.
词源 2
Onomatopoeic. Compare chug and puff.
词源 3
1520s, in sense “swollen with fat”; circa 1860, British dialect, in sense “pleased”. Possibly related to “coarse, stupid, fat-headed” sense (see etymology 1 above). Or, perhaps a euphemistic alteration of fuck or another expletive.
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