chuffed
adjectiveInformal
A British English slang term. Browse all British slang.
What it means
Pleased, delighted — usually about something you had a hand in. Often intensified as chuffed to bits.
In use
She was dead chuffed with her exam results.
I'm chuffed to bits for you, honestly.
Where it comes from
From dialect chuff, 'plump, pleased'. Confusingly, an obsolete second sense of chuffed meant displeased — the two coexisted for a while before the positive one won outright.
First attested: 1950s in the modern sense
Other forms
- Similar terms:
- made up, buzzing