huff
About 0.67 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
- noun A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
in a huff
- noun One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
- noun The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- verb To breathe heavily.
The run left him huffing and puffing.
- verb To say in a huffy manner.
- verb To enlarge; to swell up.
Bread huffs.
- verb To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
Similar words
chuff snort puff miff seeing red snit pique duff corzine harumph
Often followed by
and of was to et fauset had in said
Word family
huffed huffing huffs
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