The word 'chuff' is not considered to be an accepted word in written English.
It is primarily used as a slang term, usually in British English, that means to be pleased or to show satisfaction in an informal way. For example, you could say, "I was chuffed to hear the news of my promotion."
A flotilla of low craft chuff from left to right, man and wife hunched at the stern.
The thing is, while I wanted to throw the Cayenne into every bend at full chuff, it wasn't really doing anything to save the planet.
Part of the joy of a cigar, I am told, is the fact you can draw it out over an evening; this is not a quick chuff while you're waiting for the bus.
But even if it's just for a year, are 23 films (some of which are utter chuff, it must be noted) enough to fill a whole channel?
Eventually, a truck would come rattling down Wheelock's gantlet of potholes, a car door would chuff, and the world would go on — not where it had left off but on the other side of this nothing time.
An hour later, I saw the embed buses pull out of the Hilton's parking lot and chuff north, toward the Iraqi border.
Children in the carriages behind reach out to touch the foliage that brushes the little train as it chuff-chuffs its way up a gradient only slightly less steep than that of the wickedly inclined Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, its wheels just occasionally slipping.
It appears that so-called "industry experts" seem to know chuff-all about what people are actually listening to.
This policy had worked, more or less, with L'Equipe, though it had skewed my vocabulary to such an extent that while capable of a relatively fluent discourse on Paul Gascoigne's latest crisis, I couldn't buy a train ticket without pointing and making chuff-chuff noises.
I'd be so chuffed to be back on set with everybody and I think it would be an extraordinary experience".
Whether they enjoyed themselves subsequently is debatable, but they were undeniably chuffed at the Norwich gesture in lining up in the tunnel to applaud the losers off the field.
