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chuffed

adjective /ˈtʃʌft/

  1. Very pleased or satisfied; delighted.

    informal

    Then when Karen got him on her morning show he was chuffed as a haemophiliac with a foolproof razor

Where it comes from

From dialectal (northern England, not Scotland) chuff, originally meaning “puffed with fat”. First attested in 1957.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry chuffed (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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