Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to chuff
Participle: chuffed
Gerund: chuffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | chuff |
| you | chuff |
| he;she;it | chuffs |
| we | chuff |
| you | chuff |
| they | chuff |
Perfect
| I | have chuffed |
| you | have chuffed |
| he;she;it | has chuffed |
| we | have chuffed |
| you | have chuffed |
| they | have chuffed |
Past
| I | chuffed |
| you | chuffed |
| he;she;it | chuffed |
| we | chuffed |
| you | chuffed |
| they | chuffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had chuffed |
| you | had chuffed |
| he;she;it | had chuffed |
| we | had chuffed |
| you | had chuffed |
| they | had chuffed |
Future
| I | will chuff |
| you | will chuff |
| he;she;it | will chuff |
| we | will chuff |
| you | will chuff |
| they | will chuff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have chuffed |
| you | will have chuffed |
| he;she;it | will have chuffed |
| we | will have chuffed |
| you | will have chuffed |
| they | will have chuffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | chuff |
| you | chuff |
| he;she;it | chuff |
| we | chuff |
| you | chuff |
| they | chuff |
Perfect
| I | have chuffed |
| you | have chuffed |
| he;she;it | have chuffed |
| we | have chuffed |
| you | have chuffed |
| they | have chuffed |
Imperfect
| I | chuffed |
| you | chuffed |
| he;she;it | chuffed |
| we | chuffed |
| you | chuffed |
| they | chuffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had chuffed |
| you | had chuffed |
| he;she;it | had chuffed |
| we | had chuffed |
| you | had chuffed |
| they | had chuffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would chuff |
| you | would chuff |
| he;she;it | would chuff |
| we | would chuff |
| you | would chuff |
| they | would chuff |
Perfect
| I | would have chuffed |
| you | would have chuffed |
| he;she;it | would have chuffed |
| we | would have chuffed |
| you | would have chuffed |
| they | would have chuffed |
Imperative
| you | chuff |
| we | Let's chuff |
| you | chuff |
Verbs conjugated like 'chuff'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'chuff'
chaff,
cuff,
huff,
bluff,
buff,
chafe,
chef,
chief,
choof,
chuck,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Compare chug and puff.
Sample Sentences
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The horses stumbled along, coughing and chuffing. [1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman At The Store”, in Selected Short Stories:]
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[…] and the small lit up train that chuffed past in the cutting made it seem like real night. [1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:]
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They walk together in silence while behind them a freight train chuffs and screaks through the crossing. [1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 64:]
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The pigeons chuff and chortle off in indignant disappointment. [1990, John Updike, 'Rabbit at Rest':]
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Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely. [2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:]
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1967 Leo Allen Lukenas: The ignition transient in small solid propellant rocket motors. Princeton University
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Double base propellants often require ignition pressures of as much as 400 psia to avoid the problem of chuffing or hangfires.
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The original work of Huffington on chuffing and oscillatory burning of cordite goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. [1992, Luigi De Luca, Martin Summerfield, Nonsteady Burning and Combustion Stability of Solid Propellants, →ISBN:]
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Chuffing followed by full recovery to normal functioning (Figure 3) [1999, William G. Reinecke, Ballistics 18th International Symposium, →ISBN, page 357:]
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The pressure at which chuffing occurs depends on the powder composition and on the temperature of the charge. The lowering of the initial charge temperature facilitates chuffing. [2014, V. I. Feodosiev, G. B. Siniarev, Introduction to Rocket Technology, →ISBN, page 145:]