Conservationists in Cornwall are hailing the role the daughter of a pioneering pair of choughs for helping their numbers recover after a “remarkable year” as more than 100 choughlets bred successfully for the third successive year.
The RSPB said 48 breeding pairs of choughs raised 129 young birds in the county this year - 15 more than in 2024.
Choughs are the symbol of Cornwall but the bird became extinct in the county 50 years ago until 2001, when three birds arrived on the The Lizard from Ireland.
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I had such a hard time getting the headline. It’s a play on word for “chuffed.” Is that a British slang or am I just horribly uneducated?
“Chuffed” is slang for “pleased” but I have to admit it took me a while to get from “choughed” to “chuffed” 😂
Confusingly, depending on where you are in the country, “chuffed” can also mean “knackered/very tired/worn out”, or as a polite alternative to “fucked”, in any of “fuck”'s many uses. In the format “chuff(ed/s) off” It can also mean “perform(ed/s) oral sex upon”.
Chough/chuff on its own, apart from the bird can also mean “arse” or “vagina”, depending on where you are. For example in a phrase like “Don’t borrow her hairbrush, she’s had it shoved up her chuff”.
There are so many dialects in the UK that most words are rude somewhere :)
How rich our language is 😂 I think I’ve heard it uses as slang for vagina but wasn’t aware of the others. Thanks!
Nice work, headline writer.
