Talk:chuff

validity
Is there need for the "cleanup" tag after I've found this quote?zigzig20s 13:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Another quotation...zigzig20s 15:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Requests for verification - kept
Kept. See archived discussion of September 2007. 04:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

RFC discussion: May 2006–September 2007
"Slang Terms" section has non-standard heading, non-standard format, and possible protologisms. Rod (A. Smith) 05:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC)


 * All sorts of dubious nonsense on this entry. None of these seem to be US terms - could somone verify if they are used elsewhere, (or is the entire entry vandalism?)  --Connel MacKenzie T C 21:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

RFV-senses. DAVilla 14:52, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2016–May 2017
Verb sense:


 * Purposefully to fail a standardized test in a conspicuous way.

Can't find any relevant Google hits (e.g. for "chuffed the test").

"purposefully" appears to be a hypercorrection of "purposely".

Originally added here as "To fail a standarized test on purpose, specifically in the conspicuous way that scores it:  A.B.A.C.A.D.A". I'm not sure I even understand that. Does it mean to make write out the answers to multiple choice questions without regard to the actual questions but just so as to make a pattern with the letters? Could this be something "made up in school one day"? Mihia (talk) 14:21, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Since no evidence has been found that this sense exists, I have deleted it. Mihia (talk) 00:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:41, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

chuff it
John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) has chuff it: "be off, or take it away, in answer to a street seller who is importuning you to purchase". Equinox ◑ 13:30, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: November–December 2021
rfv-sense: stupid; churlish - only in dictionaries? OED combines the two senses Notusbutthem (talk) 11:58, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 22:37, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 10:13, 13 December 2021 (UTC)