What does "chuffed" mean?

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I tried looking it up in online slang dictionaries, couldn't find it. I usually see it in phrases like "I was chuffed to discover that blah, blah, blah...". I'm guessing it's either pleased or displeased...

― Sean, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chuffed means that you're really pleased about something. E.g. "I was really chuffed when Kylie beat Posh in the charts."

― Mascara, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it a word from oop north, like.

― Ed, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But also gratefully used by we poncy Southerners.

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

although in oz, i chuffed it means i smoked it.

― Geoff, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

casnt 'chuffing' be a substitute for 'bloody'.....eg you'll you'll chuffing well do it.....

seem to associate this word with viz.

― ambrose, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Armstrong and Miller in their rare "funny" guide invented a classic with CHUFFY!!

― Sarah, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Might as well ask it here. Recent Aphex Twin interview he tells about this submarine he has bought and goes: "It's pukka!" Probably means something like ace, right?

― Omar, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

AAAAGH! JAMIE OLIVER SLANG ALERT!

― Madchen, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well that was quick. :)

― Omar, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pukka = older than JO, tho: means "kewl" if you happen to be a G&T swillin' old colonel who pines for the raj, eg like "bungalow" it is borrowed from the tongues of india

― mark s, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And it is overused by fat tongue boy.

― Madchen, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whilst we're on about Oliver, am I on crack or is the music soundtracking ANOTHER one of his adverts "Wishing I Was Skinny" by the Boo Radleys?? Shurely Oliver baking entire shedloads of pies to this backing be JUST a wee bit on the Whot *Were* We Thinking side?

― Sarah, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about "gobsmacked"? Does it mean pleasantly surprised? I can't imagine what would be pleasurable about being smacked by gob, though. I once read an interview with Julia Roberts in which she declared herself "gobsmacked" to be in Britain making Notting Hill with Hugh Grant. I couldn't believe she actually said that.

― Arthur, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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