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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