chuffy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CHUFFY, adjective Blunt; clownish; surly; angry; stomachful. In New England, this word expresses that displeasure which causes a swelling or surly look and grumbling, rather than heat and violent expressions of anger.
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