Chuffed: the (kitty) poop

[Joel S. Berson]

We only need to ask Bucky, who said today "I'm well chuffed, ta."  He
was pleased, or at least acceptant, about returning to that
name.  ["Get Fuzzy", Boston Globe.]

Joel

At 6/24/2010 09:52 AM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>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:
> >
> > > 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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