chuff

Object

• sound: Once running it indeed makes quite a pleasant, noble chuffing sound.
• today: I'm really chuffed today because I found out that something I'd been praying for had happened.
• week: Really chuffed this week as have started teaching the S2 Sixties course that I have been developing for the past few months.

Preposition: with

• result: I'm quite chuffed with the results: see a few samples below.
• thing: For a band that's only played a couple of times in the last 18 years I was well chuffed with the whole thing.
• content: Christmas Day resulted in 3 families truly chuffed with the contents and of course the hampers.
• win: The 3rd XV went to Welwyn and came back chuffed with another win.

Infinitive complement

• hear: So I was pretty chuffed to hear these two latest offerings which both feature the man himself amid some illustrious company.
• see: Martin's chuffed to see the effort Carly's made for his party in the club.
• get: Well it was 200 yards uphill & I was quite chuffed to get the top without resulting to the lowest gear.
• have: I bet Nike are pretty chuffed to have them both.
• discover: Nor is he too chuffed to discover that Orbital websites display a host of his mug shots for public perusal.
• announce: Here we are in the mid dle of 2006 and very chuffed to announce the arrival of a new Pendro album.

Modifying Another Word

• dead: I'm ' dead chuffed ' to be asked.
• pretty: I bet Nike are pretty chuffed to have them both.
• really: Chris said, " We're really chuffed with the total amount raised.
• absolutely: He told the club's official website: " I'm absolutely chuffed to bits about it.
• quite: I'm quite chuffed with the results: see a few samples below.
• well: I was well chuffed to be living there ' cause I'd fancied the ass off Victoria for ages.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: You never realize the noise you get from an open circuit rig until you hear one chuffing up behind you.