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huff

/hʌf/

noun

Meaning

  • A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

    "With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck."

  • An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

  • One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.

verb

Meaning

  • To breathe heavily.

    "The run left him huffing and puffing."

  • To say in a huffy manner.

  • To enlarge; to swell up.

    "Bread huffs."

  • To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.

  • To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.

  • To inhale psychoactive inhalants.

  • (draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).