chuff- in comb.
[see chuff n.1, n.2 and related words.]
† chuff-cat = chuff n.1 2; † chuff-headed a., with a big fat head; † chuff-penny a., miserly, avaricious.
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. III. 745 A great chuff-headed Priest that stood by, spake. 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse (N.) Sparage gentlemen and chuff-headed burghomasters. 1603 Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 317 An old covetous Chuff penny wretch? 1604 Parsons Three Convers. Eng. III. x. 256 A great chuff-headed priest standing by. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. liv, Here enter not vile bigots, hypocrites..Fat chuffcats, smell-feast knockers, doltish gulls. |