the word "chuff"

[pankler]

This'll probably get me flamed, but I'll try anyway.

I'm trying to track the origin of the word "chuff" and when climbers first started using it (chuffer, chuffing, etc.). It seems like it started here and on frontrangebouldering around 2000, but I'd love to know more. Anyone know the full/real history here, or want to lay claim to being the first to use it in the modern meaning and let me in on how that came to be?

Chuff on...

[KIX]

deja vu all over again. again.

[Lox]

What a fine time.

[RockPharmer]

DAB

[600#gorilla]

worst first post evar?

how everz,

i did go chuffing today?

also, i do know brits that say they are "chuffed" when they are pleased with something.

what?

[Tronic]

See the little engine that could.

Also:

Also, dab.

DAB

[Lox]

As long as we're posting from page one of the chuff GIS...

KITTY McCHUFF!!!!!!!!!111



How did he get on that door?

[pander]

i coined it. you are SO welcome.

[Tronic]

McCHUFF!!!!!1111

As long as we're posting from page one of the chuff GIS...

KITTY McCHUFF!!!!!!!!!111



How did he get on that door?

I love me some McCHUFF
Also, SFW

Also, pandermonium.

[Lox]

The one chuffing is the climber, not the belayer. lol.

[600#gorilla]

My grip was beginning to fade. It broke. I felt myself falling backwards. Considering that the average human can react to an external stimulus in no less time than a quarter of second, I didn't have the luxury of considering options, and I didn't have the opportunity for a second chance. When you're about to get fucked, you act on animal instinct. I made a desperate lunge forward and grabbed the rock blindly. I heard a deafening ring originating from the center of my head. My body reeled backwards. Then I stopped. My fingers had caught a thin seem and held. The ringing died out and, the landscape came back into focus. I adjusted my feet and levered up to the jug. Leaning off of it, I exhaled and took turns shaking out my hands.

With a luxury of time, I looked down the rope 20 feet to where it fished through my only piece of pro -- a #1 nut in a horizonal crack that split the cliff in half and about 25 below that my belay Larry, Larry Fucking Bravika, tipped back in his Crazy Creek with a koozied Budweiser in one hand, a rollie mashed between his teeth, and the rope in his other hand. I yelled obscenities and nonsense, "You mother fucking cunt dick whore-faced ... er ... chuffer! Where was my goddamn running belay?" Larry laughed in his slow, punctuated way and yelled back, "Vut ze fuk iz a chuffa? You past ze crux. Ok!" He took a long drink. I shook my head, and then I automatically hand jammed the final 5.10 cakewalk to the cliff top.

And that's how I coined the term "chuffer." True story.

YOU WRITE LIKE ERNEST HEMMINGWAY.

[toivo]

omygosh you had me thinking that was real. i know slvika. the guy never runs for a belay. that's his ethic. reality first.

who was that again who said chuffer first? and was it a kind of accomplishment, or was it sportclimbing? this is a pretty inaugural internet study group. i am pleased by the topic. don't really have anything substantive to add, but would be interested to see some kind of resolution of thequestion.

[pander]

YOU WRITE LIKE ERNEST HEMMINGWAY.

BURN

[toivo]

oh yeah, it was pander. thanks for the memory. or i could have just scrolled up. but how would one have known to? why remember in the first place? perhaps this is a preliminary question

[malachi]

Heard it from Brit climbers well before sites like this were around.

Quick search for 'Chuff' as british slang yields:

chuff: 1 v fart. 2 n one’s posterior. 3 n Northern England vagina. 4 interj general swear word usable much the same as “fuck”: It was all going fine until the chuffing pigs turned up. Entirely separate from the word “chuffed,” so use with care.

Lazy chuffer.
Do you own research in the future, mkay?

[600#gorilla]

well i sure am chuffed to find out that i'm always right at least half of the time.

chuffing ponce ginger wanking tossers.

[Lox]

Chuffing is the sound spurtclimbers make...

[Tronic]

Is McCHUFF from Northern England? How did it get there? Buenas noches a todos y a todos a good chuff.

[bostonlurk0r]

Tears of joy...the dab is strong with this one.

Human perception is one big jumble of linearly progressing memes; deal with it.