![]() There must be some order taken with him, for he thinks he hath wrong, and is not the mean hind that will sit down with it." "Why, villain, it was the very Cornish chough to whom old Sir Hugh Robsart destined his pretty Amy and hither the hot-brained fool has come to look after his fair runaway. "Tressilian!" answered Foster, "what know I of Tressilian?-I never heard his name." Early spellings include chuffe, chuffe, and sometimes chough. Although we don't know where it came from, we do know that chuff has been a name for anyone boorish, churlish, miserly, or just generally disliked since the 15th century.
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