huff

Meaning of huff

noun
  1. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
    With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
  2. An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
  3. One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
verb
  1. To breathe heavily.
    The run left him huffing and puffing.
  2. To say in a huffy manner.
  3. To enlarge; to swell up.
    Bread huffs.
  4. To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
  5. To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
  6. To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
  7. (draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

Information about huff

  • The plural form of huff is: huffs.
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Hyphenation of huff

huff

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • huff is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

huff synonyms

Meaning miff:

miff

Meaning snort:

snort

Meaning puff:

puff, chuff

Words that rhyme with huff

Huff, chuff, antihuff, shuff, whuff, bullyhuff

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