c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 77/1 Choffe or chuffe, rusticus.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 59 All cobbing countrey chuffes.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Dram. Pers. sig. Aiv Sordido. A Wretched Hobnail'd Chuffe.

1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 19 in Whimzies Hee carries his Trinkilo's about him: which makes the Countrey Choughs esteeme him a man of prize.

1715 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum (ed. 2) Chuff, a Country-clown. [So 1721 in Bailey.]

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2037 in Poems (1981) 78 Thocht we wald thig ȝone verray churlische chuff.

1564 T. Becon Displayeng Popishe Masse f. xliii, in Wks. iii Ye eat vp all your selues..O canckered carls. O churlishe chuffes.

1588 A. Munday Banqvet Daintie Conceits sig. E3^v The wealthy Chuffe, that makes his Gold his God.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 ^v An olde straddling Usurer..a fat chuffe it was.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 87 Ye gorbellied knaues..yee fatte chuffes . View more context for this quotation

1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) i. ii. 11 Where thick-skin chuffes laugh at a schollers need.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 263 The inciuilitie of the rich chuffe his host the Cittizen.

1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 83 There knockt at the Gate a Rich Penurious Chuff.

1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 2) 315 A less generous Chuff..would have hugg'd his bags to the last.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. viii. 204 The father is held a close chuff.

1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey xii. 168 Some greedy chuff of a millionaire.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.)

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 205/1 Chuffe, bouffe.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mourre, the face, a part of the face about the mouth (most properly) of beasts; the muzzle or chuffe.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 156 Chuff, the backside or anus.

1964 J. Hale Grudge Fight ix. 154 Someone started singing to a tune from Carmen, ‘There's no need to be so rough—take your hand off that poor boy's chuff—there's no need to be so cruel—poor little bugger only just left school.’

1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Jan. 31/2 There was one good Super Bowl, when Joe Namath and the New York Jets of the American Football League stuffed it up the chuff of the lofty National Football League.

1980 B. Mason Solo 36 Bert: get up off your chuff and say hullo to a gentleman.

1981 Observer 20 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 31/2 He was in a 32-ton vehicle with four tyres worn..down to the cords. And that's the fellow you get driving up your chuff.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxxi. ii. 399 By reason of their fat chuffe-necks they are monstrously deformed.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 427/1 Chuffe, or puff Cheeks, or blob Cheeks [are] great and swelling out.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 27 His chuff cheeks dimpling in a fondling smile.

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 11/2 Chuff, sullen; sulky; fat.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Chuff, fat, chubby.

c1860 in Northampton Dial. I saw the old man and he looked as chuff as ever, although he is between 80 and 90.

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Chuff, expressive of a state of hilarious satisfaction, whether outwardly exhibited or not..‘As chuff as a cheese’, ‘As chuff as an apple’.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Chuff, pleased, delighted, proud, conceited. ‘The children's quite chuff to come.’

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Chuff, proud, pleased. ‘Thar rare an' chuff o' that dog o' thoine.’

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 289 Like a British sea-captain, rough, chuff, and headstrong,—but withal fair and honourable.

1855 L. Hunt Stories in Verse 162 Pure venison and good ale or wine, Except when luck was chuff.

1864 E. Capern Devon Provincialism Chuff, churlish, surly.

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 11/2 Chuff, sullen, sulky.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Choff, stern, morose.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Chuff, surly in manner, boorish, brusque, stiff and unbending.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 73 The cowboy..whose sun~burnt skin, and cheeks chuff'd out with fat.

1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 76 The driving engine chuffs rapidly.

1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow xv. 421 The far-off windy chuff of a shunting train.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia 31 Slowly, with two engines, we grunt and chuff and twist to get over the break-neck heights.

1923 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 797/2 The chuff-chuff of the exhaust from the generating plant that supplied the house with electricity.

1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. 612 The train..slowly chuff-chuffed into the gloom.

1936 M. Kennedy Together & Apart i. 33 The machine in the power house..was working away for dear life. Chuff! Chuff! it said. Chuff! Chuff! It reminded him of a certain type of woman... Here was Betsy chuff-chuffing out of the house on some errand.

1956 J. Masters Bugles & Tiger i. 32 A little locomotive would chuff across the burning desert.

1899 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 531 I came out of my box and waved my hand to him as we slowly chuffed away.

1921 J. C. Macintosh Men & Tanks iv. 28 He chuff-chuffed along the main street.

1946 Maryland Hist. Mag. 41 126 The bugle sounded recall, the whistle tooted, and they chuffed off again.

1984 F. Dibnah & P. Nicholson Fred Dibnah steams On vi. 84 It were a beautiful day and we chuffed all round the town with a little trailer on the back.

2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 1 July 31 If I'd been a bit better organised, I'd be chuffing through the green Cotswolds today on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway.

1913 E. Talbert Old Countries discovered Anew ii. 16 Soon we were being rapidly chuf-chuffed up the broad Amstel waterway.

1928 Vogue 15 June 94/3 The little motor chuffed us along the five miles of canal to Veere in an hour.

1962 S. Plath Coll. Poems (1981) 223 An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew.

2002 T. Harrison Coll. Film Poetry (2007) 410 The steam train that chuffed them off to the coast.