Chough

[Blackiequine]

I've got back a Birds quiz and the answer to the clue "a surly fellow" is chough. Can anyone explain this to me (in words of one syllable!).

[Tilly2]

So when you say, 'I was dead chuffed'. It doesn't mean you were happy? I really didn't know that.

[Tilly2]

Ha! Doc. Snap!

[Blackiequine]

Thank you, DS. Chough is pronounced chuff, surely there should have been a "sounds like" in the clue, although I probably still wouldn't have got it. I did Google both words, but not together. Many thanks for taking the trouble.

[DaisyNonna]

My dictionary says a chuff is a churl or sullen fellow.

[Tilly2]

So, as Doc and I say, why do we say, 'I'm chuffed' .........meaning the opposite?

[nungate]

A chough is a member of the crow family I think. Does that help? Check out a book of British birds it might give you the answer you are looking for

[DaisyNonna]

Also pleased from chubby cheeked!

[Tilly2]

I know what a chough is. What I don't know is why we say, 'I'm chuffed'

[shoota]

Do not, I said do NOT, look up 'chuff' in the Urban Dictionary........
'Chuffed' is a little better....

[Blackiequine]

Nungate, yes it's a member of the crow family, I just couldn't see how it was linked to a surly fellow. It seems to be a homophone.

Thank you all for your help.

[Tilly2]

Okey dokey, shoota.

[shoota]

Bet you do....

[Tilly2]

I won't. I'm a bit of a prude.

[Blackiequine]

God, Shoota, you did that deliberately didn't you. Naughty!

[shoota]

Moi, BQ?
I'm the epitome of innocence - ask anyone....

[gness]

Hah!!!

[Blackiequine]

It won't work - I've been watching you!!