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Huff   /həf/   Listen
noun
Huff  n.  
1.
A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. "Left the place in a huff."
2.
A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. "Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge... of wit."
To take huff, to take offence.


verb
Huff  v. t.  (past & past part. huffed; pres. part. huffing)  
1.
To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
2.
To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. "You must not presume to huff us."
3.
(Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.


Huff  v. i.  
1.
To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
2.
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense. "This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance."
3.
(Draughts) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.





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"Huff" Quotes from Famous Books



... They made the family laugh outright; Young Richard took huff, and no more would say, He kicked up old Dobbin, and trotted away, Singing, ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
... here, but a little lower down there is a gap made by John Huff's cow, that uses her horns so adroitly in the attack of a fence, no matter how difficult, that I verily believe she could pick a lock. We pass through the kindly breach and skirt the fence for some little distance to regain the path. The fence on this side is densely ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 • Various
... long, long time. It was late in the afternoon before he was hauled inside again, to hear his fate pronounced. He had given up hope. He could expect mercy from the Girtys least of all. They had deserted the American service in a huff, and were noted as the bitterest enemies of everything and everybody connected with it. Their ...
— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin
... present cook-mayde, not only has it, but had it on upon her necke when Susan came in, and shifted it off presently upon her coming in, I did charge her so home with it (having a mind to have her gone from us), that in a huff she told us she would be gone to-night if I would pay her her wages, which I was glad and my wife of, and so fetched her her wages, and though I am doubtful that she may convey some things away with her clothes, my wife searching ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... had planted and I had begged might stand, I confess I did take an aversion to the creature, and secretly resolved his stay should not be prolonged by my intreaties whenever his greatness chose to take huff and be gone. As to my eldest daughter, his behaviour was most ungenerous; he was perpetually spurring her to independence, telling her she had more sense and would have a better fortune than her mother, whose admonitions she ought therefore to despise; ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi


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