It's a hit (son1etin1es
When you visit a country fair, you almost always see a row of chaps and chapesses patiently sitting behind small stationary engines which chuff steadily away, just ticking over, or perhaps doing some simple repetitive task like spinning a grinding wheel.
Actually, chuff is the wrong word, as these engines typically go chuff, chuff, cough, chuff, chuff and so on. In my ignorance I assumed the occasional cough was a misfire among the steady beats, but no, it's actually a
