EGAVE

huff

About 0.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
    With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
  2. noun A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
    in a huff
  3. noun One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
  4. noun The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
  5. verb To breathe heavily.
    The run left him huffing and puffing.
  6. verb To say in a huffy manner.
  7. verb To enlarge; to swell up.
    Bread huffs.
  8. 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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