May 17, 2013 · 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.

Jul 22, 2014 · British people sometimes use "love to bits" and "thrilled/chuffed to bits" to indicate extremes. Despite searching high and low, I could not find the origin of the phrase "to bits", other than

Apr 1, 2016 · As an American of upper middle age, I have noticed younger people using different (and to my ears, wrong) prepositions—for example, "bored of" rather than "bored by." So, hearing the word chuffed ...

Oct 21, 2023 · 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:

Aug 26, 2017 · 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.

Aug 22, 2012 · I was astonished to learn that the word lacksadaisical or laxadaisical is both misspelled and mispronounced. It is still commonly used in Southern Africa (with the same meaning), whereas it is rare...

Sep 28, 2014 · It is not a common English expression. It means to make a match or to find the answer, similar to "Bingo!" It comes from old-fashioned slot machines (gambling devices something like the Japanese pachinko machines). For those machines, a winning play showed a horizontal line picturing three cherries and at the same time, rang bells. You are correct in your …

May 2, 2014 · I came across the idiom 'Done and dusted'. I would like to know what is the origin and meaning of this idiom.