1.
Possessive of dusty or dry nature, esp. in reference to airborne particulate matter.
2. Describing the curiously perverted feeling derived from reading the kind of
United States history textbooks whose authors fail to recognize their sacred
patriotism for the pitifully misplaced tribalism it actually is.
1. Walking
the southwest road out from Detroit, destined for Gary, I breathed shallow gulps of chuffly, tortured air and gagged on my terminal misfortune.
2. As a child I suffered through many chuffly evenings pondering such blisteringly dull
questions as 'was the Civil War fought primarily on economic grounds, or were humanitarian concerns a
significant factor?'