<B>chuck hole,</B> or <B>chuckhole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a deep depression or hole in a street or road. <BR> <I>Ex. Can you imagine the jolt when a truck loaded with fifty tons of green logs hits a solidly-frozen chuck hole? (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>chuckle</B> (1), verb, <B>-led,</B> <B>-ling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to laugh to oneself. <BR> <I>Ex. Father always chuckles when he reads the funny papers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to laugh in an easy, amused manner, with a degree of satisfaction. <DD><B> 3. </B>to cluck, as a fowl does. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a soft laugh; quiet laughter. <DD><B> 2. </B>the act or sound of chuckling. noun <B>chuckler.</B> adv. <B>chucklingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>chuckle</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> big and clumsy; blockish (applied contemptuously, especially to the head). </DL>
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<B>chucklehead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a stupid person; dunce. <DD><B> 2. </B>a large or thick head. </DL>
<B>chuckler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a caste of tanners or cobblers in India. </DL>
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<B>chucklesome, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> causing chuckles. <BR> <I>Ex. The humor in this book is chucklesome (New York Times). J J is a chucklesome old caution rather than a scoundrel (Punch).</I> </DL>
<B>chuckly, </B>adjective, <B>-lier,</B> <B>-liest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> chuckling; chucklesome; merry. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Scott's soothing commentary goes on--now tentative, now chuckly, ... now a shade coy (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>chuck wagon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Western U.S.) a wagon that carries food and cooking equipment for cowboys or harvest workers. It is now sometimes a truck. </DL>
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<B>chuckwalla, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, brownish lizard of the desert areas of the southwestern United States. <BR> <I>Ex. experiments with fur-swathed desert lizards known as chuckwallas to demonstrate an insulating effect against vital heat absorption by cold-blooded animals (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>chuck-will's-widow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a goatsucker of the southern United States, like but larger than the whippoorwill, named for its call. </DL>
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<B>chucky, </B>noun, pl. <B>chuckies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a chicken or other bird. <DD><B> 2. </B>(as a term of endearment) little or dear chuck. </DL>
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<B>chuddah, </B>noun. <B>=chuddar.</B></DL>
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<B>chuddar</B> or <B>chudder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rectangular piece of cloth used as a shawl in India and Iran. </DL>
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<B>chufa, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sedge native to southern Europe, but widely cultivated elsewhere, bearing small, edible tubers. </DL>
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<B>chuff</B> (1), noun, verb,<B>chuffed,</B> <B>chuffing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a short, explosive sound; chug. <BR> <I>Ex. The far-off windy chuff of a shunting train (D. H. Lawrence).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to chug. <BR> <I>Ex. The vessel ... stopped here briefly on her way to work; she'll pay a visit to Chicago for a couple of days' open house, and then chuff to home port (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>chuff</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rustic; boor; clown; churl. </DL>
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<B>chuff</B> (3), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete except Dialect.) swollen or puffed out with fat; chubby. </DL>
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<B>chuffed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) pleased; happy. <BR> <I>Ex. Both sides are pretty chuffed with the deal (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>chuffing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Aeronautics.) the intermittent burning of the fuel in a rocket engine; chugging. </DL>
<B>chug, </B>noun, verb, <B>chugged,</B> <B>chugging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a short, loud burst of sound. <BR> <I>Ex. He heard the chug of a steam engine.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make short, loud, explosive sounds, as exhaust gases from an engine cylinder. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to go or move with such sounds. <BR> <I>Ex. The old truck chugged along.</I> </DL>
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<B>chugalug, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb. <B>-lugged,</B> <B>-lugging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) to drink (a beverage) in one long swallow. <BR> <I>Ex. Every single one of them would fill the tumbler almost to the brim and chugalug it empty without pausing for breath (Saturday Evening Post).</I> </DL>
<B>chug hole,</B> or <B>chughole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) chuck hole. </DL>
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<B>chukar, </B>noun, pl. <B>-kars</B> or (collectively) <B>-kar.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gray and reddish-brown Asian partridge, common in southeastern Asia and Europe, and now a game bird in the Pacific Northwest. Also, <B>chukkar.</B> </DL>
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<B>Chukchee, </B>noun, pl. <B>-chee</B> or <B>-chees.</B> <B>=Chukchi.</B></DL>
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<B>Chukchi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-chi</B> or <B>-chis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of an aboriginal people inhabiting extreme northeastern Siberia. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Paleosiberian language of these people. Also, <B>Chuckchi,</B> <B>Chukchee.</B> </DL>
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<B>chukka, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(British.) chukker. <BR> <I>Ex. A 60-yarder ... gave Ratanda another goal early in the last chukka to make victory reasonably certain (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=chukka boot.</B> </DL>
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<B>chukka boot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ankle-high leather boot, similar to that worn for polo. <BR> <I>Ex. A traditional two eyelet chukka boot of soft and durable brown mule hide (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>chukkar</B> (1), noun, pl. <B>-kars</B> or (collectively) <B>-kar.</B> <B>=chukar.</B></DL>
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<B>chukker</B> or <B>chukkar</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a period of play in a polo game, usually lasting 7 1/2 minutes. <BR> <I>Ex. Between chukkers of the Royal Windsor Polo Cup matches at Windsor Great Park, England, an announcer called for volunteers to replace turf dug up by the ponies' hooves on the rain-soaked field (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>chula, </B>noun, pl. <B>-las.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lively dancing song of Portugal. </DL>
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<B>chullo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-los.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a knitted hat with earflaps worn in Bolivia and Peru. </DL>
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<B>chum</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>chummed,</B> <B>chumming.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a very close friend. <BR> <I>Ex. Pull yourself together, chum. It's only four hundred years altogether since the thing happened (Josephine Tey).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a roommate (especially in English universities). <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be on very friendly terms. <BR> <I>Ex. The two boys had chummed together since childhood.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to room together (in English universities). <BR><I>expr. <B>chum up,</B> </I>to strike up a friendship or association. <BR> <I>Ex. A ruff ..., in the absence of its own kind, chummed up with a greenshank and followed it everywhere (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>chum</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>chummed,</B> <B>chumming.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>chopped fish, lobsters, or other bait, thrown overboard to attract fish, as in trolling. <DD><B> 2. </B>an important, large, commercial fish whose pinkish flesh is commonly canned in the Pacific Northwest and in Japan; dog salmon; keta. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to fish with chopped fish or shellfish, as bait. </DL>
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<B>Chumash, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mash</B> or <B>-mashes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of an extinct North American Indian tribe, formerly inhabiting a part of the southern California coast. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Hokan language of this tribe. </DL>
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<B>chummer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who uses chum or throws it overboard in fishing. </DL>
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<B>chummy, </B>adjective, <B>-mier,</B> <B>-miest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) like a chum; very friendly; intimate; sociable. <BR> <I>Ex. Stroessner himself was chummy enough with Peron to put his picture and Peron's together on Paraguayan postage stamps (Time). He was accused of pushing labor into too chummy a relationship with the factory owners (Wall Street Journal).</I> adv. <B>chummily.</B> noun <B>chumminess.</B> </DL>
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<B>chump</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) a foolish or stupid person; blockhead. <DD><B> 2. </B>a short, thick block of wood. <DD><B> 3. </B>a thick, blunt end. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) the head. <BR><I>expr. <B>off one's chump,</B> </I>(Slang.) off one's head; out of one's senses. <BR> <I>Ex. Turner kept jabbering away ... and at first I thought he was off his chump (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>chump</B> (2), transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to champ; munch. <BR> <I>Ex. Sir Brian reads his letters and chumps his dry toast (Thackeray).</I> </DL>
<B>chunam, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in the East Indies) prepared lime, especially a fine kind made from calcined shell and chewed with the areca nut and the betel leaf. <DD><B> 2. </B>a fine plaster for building, capable of receiving a high polish. </DL>
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<B>chunk</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a thick piece or lump. <BR> <I>Ex. a chunk of wood.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a stocky animal or person. <DD><B> 3. </B>a strong, stout animal, especially a horse. </DL>
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<B>chunk</B> (2), intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make a plunging sound, like a paddle in water. <BR> <I>Ex. For a time he is on a paddlesteamer--chunking, in the best Kipling tradition (Punch).</I> </DL>
