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I'm coming into this conversation late, but here's one thing I don't get.

The topic is "ignorant American questions", and you're asking for the definition of chuff.

I've never heard anyone, anywhere in the US use the word chuff at any time. I haven't been to every state in the union (28), but I haven't heard it in any major city anywhere.

I know there's a few US citizens on here. Has anyone else ever heard the word chuff used in common parlance?

Ian the Mental-Ian wrote:The word "kahki" like Kahki pants. In the states it sounds like Kah as in the beginning of cap, key like a house key. While I've heard Car Key over there in the UK.

That would be because having cacky pants would be quite embarrasing!

Demitri, I think you've got it the wrong way round; it was a question being posed by and "ignorant American" about UK English.

Demitri - i believe he was just asking it as "i think i may be a bit silly asking for the explanations of these brit words because I'm an American"..rather than anything else.

I think you should start a trend, and spread your chuff throughout America. Pillock would be another unheard of word in the States that you could bandy around without fear of verbal attacks.

You're a smart guy - I'm sure you know the origins of the word "berk" too.

Duplicity wrote:You're a smart guy - I'm sure you know the origins of the word "berk" too.

That's an alarming piece of Cockney slang, innit?

Berk = Berkshire Hunt = ****

Duplicity wrote:
I think you should start a trend, and spread your chuff throughout America. Pillock would be another unheard of word in the States that you could bandy around without fear of verbal attacks.

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queen of clubs wrote:

Duplicity wrote:You're a smart guy - I'm sure you know the origins of the word "berk" too.

That's an alarming piece of Cockney slang, innit?

Berk = Berkshire Hunt = ****

You're 'avin' a tin intcha?!

There's even a cockney alphabet.

A for 'orses
B for mutton
C for miles

and so on...

"I wuz drivin' me tea, two and bloater dahn the road wasnt i...when i swerved to avoid a 13 amp. I ended up hitting a Thomas Moore instead, who was with a 3 wheel with a plastic three card trick!"

And of course in the UK a mentalist is not a mind-reading magician. He is, well, somebody who's mental.

To quote Alan Partridge: "You're a bloody mentalist!"

Duplicity,

You are talking about Steptoe and Son who lived in the heart of the East End where Apples and Pears meant stairs And the sweeney tod were ..... ???

Wow, completely misunderstood the entire topic of the thread. Allow me the opportunity to hide my red face in shame and quickly bow out of the conversation...

Demitri wrote:Wow, completely misunderstood the entire topic of the thread. Allow me the opportunity to hide my red face in shame and quickly bow out of the conversation...

Do not hide! Embrace our collective chuffs!

Or the Sweeney will come getcha.

To try and raise the level above pillocks and chuffs - the reason why the slang for your bottom is 'arris, is thus:

Aristotle = bottle, bottle and glass = a**e

A**e = ass in American slang.