Chuffed

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
>
> On 23 Jun 2010, at 18:13, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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> > The trouble is, of course, that it's impossible to tell from the context
> > whether (a) or (b) is implied by the commentator, or even if the meaning
> > matches one of these at all. To add to the confusion,
>
> "Chuffed" in the sense of "pleased, (highly) satisfied" is completely commonplace
> informal BrE, so there's no confusion.
>
> I find a search like http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chuffed+site:guardian.co.uk
> useful to explore words such as this one.

See also Stan Carey's recent post on "chuffed" on his Sentence First blog:

http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/plainly-chuffed/


--Ben Zimmer

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