Definition of huffs Huffs
/hʌˈfs/ - [hufs] -
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Wiktionary 
- huffs (Noun)
Plural of huff.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: hufves |
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| huff - a state of irritation or annoyance | ||
| miff, seeing red | ||
| botheration, vexation, annoyance, irritation the act of troubling or annoying someone | ||
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| huff - inhale recreational drugs; "The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day"; "the kids were huffing glue" | ||
| snort | ||
| breathe in, inhale, inspire draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well" | ||
| do drugs, drug administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" | ||
| huff - blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" | ||
| puff, chuff | ||
| blow exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down" | ||
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Wiktionary
- huff (Noun)
A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. - huff (Noun)
An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. - huff (Noun)
A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance. - huff (Verb)
To breathe heavily. - huff (Verb)
To inhale psychoactive inhalants. - huff (Verb)
To say in a huffy manner. - huff (Verb)
To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- huff (v. t.)
To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. - huff (v. t.)
To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. - huff (v. t.)
To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3. - huff (v. i.)
To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs. - huff (v. i.)
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense. - huff (v. i.)
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. - huff (n.)
A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. - huff (n.)
A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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huff
huf, n. sudden anger or arrogance: a fit of disappointment or anger: a boaster.—v.t. to swell: to bully: to remove a 'man' from the board for not capturing pieces open to him, as in draughts.—v.i. to swell: to bluster.—adjs. Huff′ish, Huff′y, given to huff: insolent: arrogant.—adv. Huff′ishly.—ns. Huff′ishness, Huff′iness. [Imit., like puff; cf. Ger. hauchen, to breathe.]
