[LRflex] Re: Feeling "Chuffed"

No David,
just steeped in Yorkshire dialect
There is another less pleasant use of the word "chuff" around Leeds and 
Sheffield, "Daft old chuff" means the same as "Stupid old fart")

Whether any of these are in a dictionary anywhere, I've no idea, but I 
still take lots of chuff-chuff pictures anyway :-)
Cheers
Douglas

David Young wrote:
> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
>   
>> I seem to remember that chuffed has ornithological connotations - a male
>> bird chuffs its breast to impress females.
>>     
>
> Hmmm... .with humans, it's the other way 'round... is it not?
>
>   
>> It also comes in another UK phrase, "As cold as a Penguin's chuff", the
>> chuff being the "nest" of feathers between a penguins feet for keeping
>> eggs or chicks warm.
>>     
>
>
> Gee, Douglas... you've got a bigger dictionary than I do!  :-)
>
> Cheers!
> ---
>
> David Young,
> Logan Lake, CANADA
>
> Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
> Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
>
>
>
>
> ------
> Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at:
>     http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm
> Archives are at:
>     http://www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/
>
>   
------
Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at:
    http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm
Archives are at:
    http://www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/

Other related posts: