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chuffy
adjective as in crabby
Weak matches
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
Example Sentences
However, it don’t do for us to be soft, so I says quite chuffy, as if I’d cut up rough— “What d’yer mean?”
Then off I goes arter the baker, who was one o’ your red-faced, chuffy little chaps, one o’ them coves as has sech a precious good opinion o’ themselves.
The international set. though, was not about to travel to the bottom of the world, board a chuffy little train and travel for five hours to the edge of nowhere.
Long before the chuffy steam engine, the average town was anything but a hushed haven of peace and quiet; one need only sample the nonstop bell ringing, banging and conversational yelling that still goes on from dawn to dark in any little Spanish fishing village.
Its chuffy exhaust billowed dust through the room.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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