What it means
Means you’re absolutely buzzing, proper pleased with yourself or a bit of good news. Chuffed is that cosy pride you get when something goes your way, and dead is a Northern intensifier meaning really or very. Put them together and it’s like saying over the moon, only more down-to-earth and mates-at-the-pub. Works for wins, freebies, and tiny victories alike too.
Usage examples
"Won a tenner on the scratchies, then the gaffer let me knock off early. I was dead chuffed, heading home like a champ."
"He was dead chuffed with his exam results, rang his nan before he'd even left the school gates."
"Dead chuffed with the new allotment, first season and I've already got more courgettes than sense."
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