Is it the opposite to "miffed" ?
...Wayne
>
> Thanks, Bob. That's rather interesting; I must admit that "chuffed" is
not in
> my daily vocabulary, but I do use it fairly often. I see from an online
> dictionary that it was allegedly used first in 1957: it's only as old as I
am (I was
> born in 1954) ;-)
>
> Chris
>
> On 29 May 2013, at 16:00, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > PS: From the On Language Department, "chuffed" is one of those words
> that means exactly the opposite of what it looks/sounds like. At least to
me.
> When I first opened your post the initial scan got to chuffed and expected
> the rest of the post to be an expression of disappointment. A few words
> farther along and I realized my brain had been slapping me around again.
>
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