chuffed; chuffing; chuffs
: to produce noisy exhaust or exhalations : proceed or operate with chuffs
… the chuffing and snorting of switch engines from the nearby railway …—
Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico
: the sound of noisy exhaust or exhalations
Examples of chuff in a Sentence
Noun (1)
the sort of ostentatious London townhouse that some greedy chuff of a billionaire might own
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Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2025
Since good active noise cancellation (ANC) relies on algorithms, Google could use its advanced AI capabilities to filter out the chuff and offer the most personalized ANC on the market.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2025
Found in the far northeast of Japan on the island of Hokkaido, the Fuyu-no-Shitsugen train chuffs through this national park with retro style in the winter months.
—John Walton, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
At engineer Chuck Wolf's signal, air from each car's reservoir instantly begins pounding into the cylinder in a cacophony of clangs and chuffs.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2022
The vault's stone hull juts like a shipwreck in the drifted ice while polar bears chuff and lumber past the door.
—Brittney Corrigan, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
And as James said, if everyone is chuffed and saying, ‘What’s this like?
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
And Sheeran, onstage, seems absolutely chuffed by this shift.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
His team of stylists is also a cut above the rest, should your coif be chuffed and in need of repair.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2024
Image: Apple Folks who have been clamoring for rest days on the Apple Watch will also be chuffed to know getting sick or injured will no longer break streaks.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 10 June 2024
Meryl stood next to her throughout, wearing a calming white gown and glasses, making a series of grateful and stunned and moved and chuffed and bashful facial expressions and occasionally fanning herself, which is to say, being Meryl Streep.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2024
Travelers are just chuffed with London this summer, and are planning to head there in droves.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban would be chuffed.
—Eric Gordy, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2018
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Noun
The easily accessible velocity feels intoxicating and is accentuated with a rich sonic layer cake: the whoosh of air sucking into the engine, the hiss of spooling turbos, the chuff of blowoff valves, and the deep-bass thrum of combustion pulsing through a large trapezoidal exhaust vane.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2025
Since good active noise cancellation (ANC) relies on algorithms, Google could use its advanced AI capabilities to filter out the chuff and offer the most personalized ANC on the market.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2025
Found in the far northeast of Japan on the island of Hokkaido, the Fuyu-no-Shitsugen train chuffs through this national park with retro style in the winter months.
—John Walton, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
At engineer Chuck Wolf's signal, air from each car's reservoir instantly begins pounding into the cylinder in a cacophony of clangs and chuffs.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2022
The vault's stone hull juts like a shipwreck in the drifted ice while polar bears chuff and lumber past the door.
—Brittney Corrigan, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
Verb
President Trump is chuffed about his recent trade deal with Japan calling it the greatest in U.S. history.
—Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
And as James said, if everyone is chuffed and saying, ‘What’s this like?
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
And Sheeran, onstage, seems absolutely chuffed by this shift.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
His team of stylists is also a cut above the rest, should your coif be chuffed and in need of repair.
—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2024
Image: Apple Folks who have been clamoring for rest days on the Apple Watch will also be chuffed to know getting sick or injured will no longer break streaks.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 10 June 2024
Meryl stood next to her throughout, wearing a calming white gown and glasses, making a series of grateful and stunned and moved and chuffed and bashful facial expressions and occasionally fanning herself, which is to say, being Meryl Streep.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2024
Travelers are just chuffed with London this summer, and are planning to head there in droves.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban would be chuffed.
—Eric Gordy, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2018
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“Chuff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chuff. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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