meaning - Chuffed - English Language Usage Stack Exchange One can say chuffed pink (tickled pink) to mean 'pleased' or dead chuffed to mean 'displeased ' In the second sense,chuffed is synonymous with choked The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2008) says: chuffed adjective 1 pleased, delighted; flattered; very excited Originally northern English dialect meaning ‘proud
etymology - Origin of British term to bits - English Language Usage . . . "Chuffed to bits" also depends on the prevalence of "chuffed", of course; I was able to find one example as early as 1979 Nowhere have I found any authoritative reference to the source of the to bits phrasing, though John Lawler's suggestion sounds reasonable
What preposition properly collocates with chuffed? [closed] "Chuffed" appears 30 times in the 440 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English Below are your results Unfortunately I find only one example of "chuff" + preposition (line 2) 1 2015 FIC NewEnglandRev A B C smiled " She's the sweetest little thing in the world " She chuffed Callie's snowsuit and started to turn away
Is there a specific name for that singular exhalation laugh that . . . Puff and chuff can be used similary but the phrases puffed a small laugh and chuffed a small laugh are much less common in Google Books Chuff usually describes a more loud and forceful sound by itself; and here is a good description from vocabulary com: To chuff is to breathe with an audible puff sound
single word requests - Verb for the act of making a Tch sound . . . I would use "chuffed" chuff n 1 A sound of or like the exhaust of a steam engine - v i 2 to emit or proceed with chuffs The train chuffed along Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language 1996 edition
verbs - English Language Usage Stack Exchange @Araucaria My non-expert understanding is that "transitive verb" has usually been defined for the last ~1500 years as a verb whose meaning requires completion by an object in the accusative case; nom and acc switch when you switch to passive voice but the other cases stay the same (with occasional variations among grammarians, because there are many reasonable, very similar ways to draw
What is the provenance of “ring the cherries”? It probably comes from the old style of 'slot machines' Usually the biggest prize on a slot machine was the cherry, as each cherry on its wheel stopped in the winning position, a small bell sound was heard, if all 3 cherries were aligned another bell slightly louder and longer would sound