by blueskyes February 27, 2015
Get the Dead Chuffed mug.1. Noun reflecting a small nugget of excrement left between the buttocks by rushed or ineffectual wiping, thus causing continued discomfort until it is removed or becomes dislodged.
2. Noun reflecting a person whose presence causes a similar degree of irritation to that depicted in the first definition.
3. Noun reflecting a particularly posh person, educated at "one of the finer” English boarding schools, typically brought up in a mansion in the Home Counties only to spend the best part of their teens and early twenties living at the Chelsea townhouse left mostly vacant by parents who prefer the family home in the country. They can be identified most easily by their tendency to speak with an almost patronisingly nasal slant on Received Pronunciation and their apparent failure to understand anyone that doesn't do the same, regardless of class, nationality or ethnicity. Other tell-tale signs, although by no means uniform, are tailored shirts (often pink), big hair and showy, obnoxious behaviour in the men, and sunglasses (whatever the weather), ugg boots, eating disorders and peroxide blonde hair in the women.
Etymologically, it derives from the adjective chuff, meaning posh, which, in turn derives from chuffed, as in pleased with oneself, since posh English people often come off as quite smug and seem oblivious to the struggles of those who are not upper class. The suffix nut may simply have been added because of the internal rhyme and its meaning as head (ie posh-head), or, perhaps, fanatic (eg film-nut), since chuffnuts seem very much immersed in their own rather small world, often acting surprised when another chuffnut knows someone they know, when, in reality, the fact that they are a chuffnut means they could only have been to one of maybe a dozen prep schools, a further dozen boarding schools and perhaps five universities (Newcastle, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds & Bristol currently being the worst offenders, although an elite Oxbridge contingent - from which Conservative MPs David Cameron and Boris Johnson hail - should not be entirely discounted).
N.B. It has been argued that the first two definitions could also have contributed to the third, since the blinkered conservative views nurtured by chuffnuts' sheltered existence and the afore-mentioned nasal tone with which they speak (particularly amongst female specimens, where it can manifest itself as rather shrill) can often prove somewhat irritating. However, the claim remains unsubstantiated.
2. Noun reflecting a person whose presence causes a similar degree of irritation to that depicted in the first definition.
3. Noun reflecting a particularly posh person, educated at "one of the finer” English boarding schools, typically brought up in a mansion in the Home Counties only to spend the best part of their teens and early twenties living at the Chelsea townhouse left mostly vacant by parents who prefer the family home in the country. They can be identified most easily by their tendency to speak with an almost patronisingly nasal slant on Received Pronunciation and their apparent failure to understand anyone that doesn't do the same, regardless of class, nationality or ethnicity. Other tell-tale signs, although by no means uniform, are tailored shirts (often pink), big hair and showy, obnoxious behaviour in the men, and sunglasses (whatever the weather), ugg boots, eating disorders and peroxide blonde hair in the women.
Etymologically, it derives from the adjective chuff, meaning posh, which, in turn derives from chuffed, as in pleased with oneself, since posh English people often come off as quite smug and seem oblivious to the struggles of those who are not upper class. The suffix nut may simply have been added because of the internal rhyme and its meaning as head (ie posh-head), or, perhaps, fanatic (eg film-nut), since chuffnuts seem very much immersed in their own rather small world, often acting surprised when another chuffnut knows someone they know, when, in reality, the fact that they are a chuffnut means they could only have been to one of maybe a dozen prep schools, a further dozen boarding schools and perhaps five universities (Newcastle, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds & Bristol currently being the worst offenders, although an elite Oxbridge contingent - from which Conservative MPs David Cameron and Boris Johnson hail - should not be entirely discounted).
N.B. It has been argued that the first two definitions could also have contributed to the third, since the blinkered conservative views nurtured by chuffnuts' sheltered existence and the afore-mentioned nasal tone with which they speak (particularly amongst female specimens, where it can manifest itself as rather shrill) can often prove somewhat irritating. However, the claim remains unsubstantiated.
1. “Remember to wipe carefully children, because this is the last service station we'll be stopping at and after eating so many cashews last night, you're liable to end up spending the rest of the journey being bothered by a chuffnut.”
2. “He had a tendency to cling to whatever party guest had yet to learn what a chuffnut he was, or at least, those too polite to tell him just to fuck off. “
3. “When did all these chuffnuts move to Battersea? I just took a walk through the park and saw 3 couples wearing matching pashminas.”
2. “He had a tendency to cling to whatever party guest had yet to learn what a chuffnut he was, or at least, those too polite to tell him just to fuck off. “
3. “When did all these chuffnuts move to Battersea? I just took a walk through the park and saw 3 couples wearing matching pashminas.”
by Trudi July 2, 2008
Get the chuffnut mug.The most real literary character I've read from the novel The Catcher in the Rye. JD Salinger, the author of Catcher himself, often referred to Holden as a real person, saying things like, "No, Holden wouldn't like that."
Depressed throughout the novel, he takes jabs at the injustices around him, calling many people and things "phony," and while usually true, stating this only made him more depressed.
People he liked included his dead brother Allie, his kid sister Phoebe, and Mr. Antolini, a teacher at a former school of his who cleaned up the dead body of Kevin Castle after he killed himself by jumping from a dorm window.
Depressed throughout the novel, he takes jabs at the injustices around him, calling many people and things "phony," and while usually true, stating this only made him more depressed.
People he liked included his dead brother Allie, his kid sister Phoebe, and Mr. Antolini, a teacher at a former school of his who cleaned up the dead body of Kevin Castle after he killed himself by jumping from a dorm window.
Some quotes of Holden Caulfield:
"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
"High school's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
"Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God I don't."
"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
"High school's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
"Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God I don't."
by jose rodriguezz May 16, 2006
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by LittleFish January 15, 2009
Get the Chuff it out mug.She’s the first thought in the morning and last at night. Nothing comes close to her. She’s the one.
by ChickenEnchiladaz October 12, 2023
Get the Chulera mug.to 'pull a Holden Caulfield' is to go on a trip with no real aim in mind; a day trip (or night trip) that is completely reliant on one's stream of consciousness; based on Holden Caulfield's random journey through New York from J. D. Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye."
We had no idea what we wanted to do or where we wanted to go, so we pulled a Holden Caulfield and rambled around for a while.
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