Chuffed is informal British English for “really pleased”: I'm really chuffed with the shelf I built. It's usually about a small personal joy: something worked out, someone praised you, someone remembered. You can be chuffed with, about or that. In formal writing, use pleased or delighted.
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be chuffed with / about + noun; be chuffed that + clause
- I am really chuffed with the shelf I built.
- She was chuffed that her neighbour remembered her birthday.
- We were absolutely chuffed about the invitation.
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First versionI really chuffed with the photographs from our walk.
RevisionI am really chuffed with the photographs from our walk.
Chuffed ends in -ed, so it looks like a past-tense verb, as in I really enjoyed it. That's how am gets lost: I really chuffed. But chuffed is an adjective, and without be the sentence doesn't work: I am really chuffed.
Stoked is excitement and anticipation, more American. Chuffed is calm British pleasure in a result. Proud is about your own achievement, while you can be chuffed with a gift you had nothing to do with.
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Complete the description of a pleased feeling: I ___ chuffed with the result.
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am — The adjective chuffed needs a linking verb: I am chuffed. Do doesn't work with an adjective describing a state.
Tell about a small result that made you happy. Use chuffed with or chuffed that and say what pleased you.
I am chuffed with the little herb garden I managed to grow on the balcony.
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