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huff
[ huhf ]
noun
- a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment:
Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
Synonyms: , , ,
verb (used with object)
- to give offense to; make angry.
- to treat with arrogance or contempt; bluster at; hector or bully.
- Checkers. to remove (a piece) from the board as a penalty for failing to make a compulsory capture.
- Slang. to inhale the vapors of in order to become intoxicated:
to huff glue.
verb (used without object)
- to take offense; speak indignantly.
- to puff or blow; breathe heavily.
- to swell with pride or arrogance; swagger or bluster.
huff
/ ʌ /
noun
- a passing mood of anger or pique (esp in the phrase in a huff )
verb
- to make or become angry or resentful
- intr to blow or puff heavily
- Alsoblow draughts to remove (an opponent's draught) from the board for failure to make a capture
- obsolete.tr to bully
- huffing and puffingempty threats or objections; bluster
Derived Forms
- ˈܴڴھ, adjective
- ˈܴڴھԱ, noun
- ˈܴڴھ, adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of huff1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with huff , also see in a huff .Example Sentences
A third centered on concerns about whether, while relieved of duty in 2015, he’d undertaken policing action when he detained someone who appeared to be huffing gas from an air-conditioning unit near his home.
“These muscles were not made for violence,” he huffs.
“Inexcusable,” he huffed, echoing Trump’s suggestion there may be political terms for wildfire relief.
With head coach Andy Farrell deep in British and Irish Lions prep, his assistant Simon Easterby has stepped up to lead a team who huffed and puffed their way through November.
“What about the kids? What about me?” she says, huffing away in her avatar’s spandex skeleton costume.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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