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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#m1)

2) Chuffed is also the past form of chuff: to make a puffing sound like a steam train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#x1)
- Dad's dead chuffed with his new bike. (UK slang) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#x2)
- She was chuffed that her team won. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#x3)
- Gran was chuffed with her birthday card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#x4)
- The little engine chuffed up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#x5)
- I'm well chuffed! (UK slang) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/501-big-brothers/3/)
- [Wynne is half insulted and half chuffed that Gwil cares, but a fake win feels like pity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chuffed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chuffed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.