huff
/hʌf/
Dictionary
noun
- 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
- 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).
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