Obs. exc. dial. [f. CHUFF sb.2 + -Y1.] Fat, swollen or puffed out with fat, esp. of the cheeks; plump-cheeked; chubby.

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1611.  Cotgr., Gifflard … Chuffie, full-cheekt; swollen or puft vp, in the face, and throat. Ibid., Mourru … Chuffie, broad, out-standing, like the face of a Lyon, muzzle of an Oxe, &c.

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1714.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5274/11. A lusty brown chuffy Woman.

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1774.  Westm. Mag., II. 93. The chuffy cit [may] his porter swill.

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1786.  Burns, Earnest Cry & Prayer, viii. A chuffie vintner.

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a. 1825.  Forby, E. Anglia Voc., Chuffy … means fat and fleshy, particularly in the cheeks.

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1883.  Hampsh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Chuffy, broad-faced, healthy.

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  b.  chuffy brick: a brick puffed out by the escape of rarified air or steam during burning (O.).

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  c.  Comb. Chuffy-cheeked adj.

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1725.  Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., II. iii. Bessy Feetock’s chuffy-cheeked wain [= wean].

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1879.  Jamieson, Chuffie-cheeks, a ludicrous designation given to a full-faced child.

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