chuffed

«chuffed» in Mova's school dictionary: very pleased and proud, as in I'm chuffed to bits — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (chuffed) — UK, informal

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, informal) Chuffed means very pleased and proud, as in I'm chuffed to bits. tree →

2) Chuffed is also the past form of chuff: to make a puffing sound like a steam train. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand speech, chuffed means delighted: chuffed with my test result. Chuffed to bits means extremely pleased. In stories, a little steam engine chuffed along the track.

examples

• I was chuffed to bits with my certificate. (UK informal) tree →
• Dad's dead chuffed with his new bike. (UK slang) tree →
• She was chuffed that her team won. tree →
• Gran was chuffed with her birthday card. tree →
• The little engine chuffed up the hill. tree →
• I'm well chuffed! (UK slang) tree →

note

Informal: fine in speech and stories, not in formal essays. Usually after be: I'm chuffed, not a chuffed boy. Dead chuffed and well chuffed are slang ways of saying very chuffed.

In the corpora

• Tadhg is chuffed (very pleased) for a week.
• Wynne is half insulted and half chuffed that Gwil cares, but a fake win feels like pity.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chuffed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.