Thanks for that Philip! It was made famous for all South Africans when
Springbok Captain Gary Teichman used it to describe how he was feeling
after thrashing the Ozzies on their home turf!
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:04, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Dickenson, Steven wrote:
>
> > My question is what does "chuffed" mean??
>
> Highly pleased in a self-satisfied kind of way.
>
> However, the online OED says this:
>
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> a. Pleased, satisfied. b. Displeased, disgruntled.
>
> a. 1957 P. WILDEBLOOD Main Chance ix. 163 Aren't you pleased? There's
> not many kids of your age what owns a factory. You ought to be dead
> chuffed about it. 1960 A. WAUGH Foxglove Saga xii. 218 He was chuffed at
> this new monumental skive he had discovered. 1961 S. PRICE Just for
> Record iv. 29 My beard is black, all-black. That makes me pretty
> chuffed. 1967 Crescendo May 6 (Advt.), I cannot express too much just
> how `chuffed' I am with the drums.
>
> b. 1960 D. STOREY This Sporting Life I. ii. 59, I felt pretty chuffed
> with myself. 1964 C. DALE Other People viii. 158 Don't let on they're
> after you, see, or she'll be dead chuffed, see? She don' like the law.
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>
> I'd never heard of the second meaning. That's a typical bit of English
> confusion, using the same word with opposite meanings. The first meaning
> seems to to back further, taken from "chuff":
>
>
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> c1860 in Northampton Dial., I saw the old man and he looked as chuff as
> ever, although he is between 80 and 90. 1876 Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.)
> Chuff, expressive of a state of hilarious satisfaction, whether
> outwardly exhibited or not..`As chuff as a cheese', `As chuff as an
> apple'. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chuff, pleased, delighted,
> proud, conceited. `The children's quite chuff to come.' 1888 Sheffield
> Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chuff, proud, pleased. `Thar rare an' chuff o' that dog
> o' thoine.'
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