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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1725, 1786-1789, 1847-1894, 1989
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‡CHUFFIE, CHUFFY, adj. [′tʃʌfɪ̢]
1. Fat, portly, fat-faced (Ork., Edb. 2000s). Obs. in Eng. except dial.Edb. 1894 P. H. Hunter J. Inwick ix.:
Weel, he was a muckle-boukit chiel, wi' chuffie cheeks, an' a roun' gawsy face, like a Selkirk bannie or a hairst müne.Edb. 1989:
Richard yaised tae be a bonny laddie, but he's goat aw chuffie roond the face now.Ayr. 1786 Burns Author's Earnest Cry viii.:
A blackguard Smuggler, right behint her, An' cheek-for-chow, a chuffie Vintner.Rxb. 1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 164:
We've rowthie baith o' brose an' kail, Whilk mak's us chuffie, sleek, and rantie.
2. Combs.: (1) chuffy-cheekit, -cheeked, chubby-cheeked (Sc. 1825 Jam.2; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., obsol.); (2) chuffie-cheeks, “a ludicrous designation given to a full-faced child” (Sc. 1825 Jam.2).(1) Sc. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Shepherd Act II. Sc. iii. in Poems (1728):
When Bessy Freetock's chuffy-cheeked We'an To a Fairy turn'd, and cou'd na stand its lane.Kcb. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 58:
Now infant Day, like chuffy-cheekit wean, Peeps frae Aurora's bed.
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