chuffs —
“Fat,”
1 HENRY IV., ii. 2. 86.
“Chuff is always
used in a bad sense, and means a coarse unmannered clown, at once sordid and
wealthy.”
Gifford's note on Massinger's
Works, vol. i. p. 281, ed. 1813
. (In A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions, etc.,
1578, we have
“The wealthy chuffe, for all his wealth,
Cannot redeeme therby his health,”
p. 150, reprint. and in Marlowe's Ovid's Elegies, “Chuff-like, had I not gold, and could not use it?”
Book iii. 7. [where the original has “dives avarus],—” Works, p. 343, ed. Dyce, 1858. )
Cannot redeeme therby his health,”
p. 150, reprint. and in Marlowe's Ovid's Elegies, “Chuff-like, had I not gold, and could not use it?”
Book iii. 7. [where the original has “dives avarus],—” Works, p. 343, ed. Dyce, 1858. )
