| 单词 |
chuffing |
| 释义 |
▪ I. chuffing, a. Brit. slang.
Brit. |ˈtʃʌfɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈtʃəfɪŋ|
[Apparently a euphemistic alteration of fucking adj. at fuck v. after chuff n.3]
Used as an intensifier, freq. as a mild expletive or euphemism for fucking.
1980J. Wainwright Dominoes vii. 176 We were mad. The whole chuffing world was mad. 1995Loaded July 18/1 Whoever invented breasts, hot weather and skimpy clothing and put them all together was a chuffing genius. 2001Wire June 6/1 To which you may reply, ‘It's all just your chuffin' problem, mate!’ 2004J. Colgan Do you remember First Time? iii. 62 Chuffing hell. There were fourteen text messages waiting for me, and I didn't understand a single one of them.
▪ II. † ˈchuffing, vbl. n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[Of unknown history: it implies a vb. chuff: cf. chuffer.]
(app.) Cheating, deceit, falsehood.
c1200Ormin 12177 Þatt wass chuffinng, & falls & flærd, & tære læh þe deofell.
▪ III. ˈchuffing, vbl. n.2
[f. chuff v.2]
Sporadic or intermittent burning (of fuel).
1954Trans. Faraday Soc. L. 942 By burning cordite charges in small vented vessels an investigation has been made of chuffing (sporadic burning with the pressure falling to atmospheric between peaks) and of the continuous but oscillatory burning into which chuffing transforms when the nozzle size is reduced. Over a wide range of chuffing frequency..the surface recession of the propellant associated with a single chuff varies by only a small amount. 1961Soc. Automotive Engin. Jrnl. June 31/1 Chuffing after prescribed burnout could prove disastrous to a space launching. Chuffing (intermittent oscillatory burning) of the second-stage after separation of the third-stage, before the third-stage is ignited, might cause it to ram the third-stage. |
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