Huff

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fit of anger or annoyance; a pique: stormed off in a huff.
  • verb-intransitive. To puff; blow.
  • verb-intransitive. To make noisy, empty threats; bluster.
  • verb-intransitive. To react indignantly; take offense.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To inhale the fumes of a volatile chemical or substance as a means of becoming intoxicated.
  • v. To cause to puff up; inflate.
  • v. To treat with insolence; bully.
  • v. To anger; annoy.
  • v. Slang To inhale the fumes of (a volatile chemical, for example) as a means of becoming intoxicated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
  • n. An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
  • n. A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance.
  • v. To breathe heavily.
  • v. To inhale psychoactive inhalants
  • v. To say in a huffy manner
  • v. To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up.
  • v. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
  • v. To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
  • verb-intransitive. To enlarge; to swell up.
  • verb-intransitive. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
  • verb-intransitive. 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.
  • n. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
  • n. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To puff or blow.
  • To dilate; swell up: as, the bread huffs.
  • To swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; bluster; storm; rant.
  • To swell; puff; distend.
  • To treat with insolence or arrogance; rebuke rudely; hector.
  • In chess, to remove from the board, as a captured piece.
  • In checkers, to remove from the board, as a piece belonging to one player, as a penalty for not having taken an exposed piece belonging to the other. It is usual for the player, in removing the piece, to blow upon it. See huff, n., 3.
  • n. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of petulance or ill humor.
  • n. One puffed up with an extravagant opinion of his own value or importance.
  • n. In checkers, the removal of a player's piece from the board when, having the chance, he refuses or neglects to capture one or more of his opponent's pieces.
  • n. Light paste, or pie-crust.
  • n. A dry, scurfy, or scaly incrustation on the skin.
  • n. Strong beer.
  • Angry; huffish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. inhale recreational drugs
  • v. blow hard and loudly
  • n. a state of irritation or annoyance
  • Verb Form
    huffed    huffing    huffness    huffs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    breathe in    inhale    inspire    blow    irritation    annoyance    vexation    botheration   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hector    bully    enlarge    storm    rage    boaster    anger    offend    pet    quarrel   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Slough    bluff    bruff    buff    cuff    duff    enough    fluff    gruff    guff   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    snort    whoosh    snuffle    gasp    wheeze    adeptness    limelight    snicker    puff    cluck