huff, miff, seeing red
(noun) a state of irritation or annoyance
puff, huff, chuff
(verb) blow hard and loudly; “he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain”
huff, snort
(verb) inhale recreational drugs; “The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day”; “the kids were huffing glue”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
huff (plural huffs)
A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
(obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
huff (third-person singular simple present huffs, present participle huffing, simple past and past participle huffed)
(intransitive) To breathe heavily.
(intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
(intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
(intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense. [from the 16th c.]
(intransitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
(transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants. [from the 20th c.]
(transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
Huff (plural Huffs)
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Huff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Huffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Huffing.] Etym: [Cf. OE. hoove to puff up, blow; prob. of imitative origin.]
1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew.
2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. You must not presume to huff us. Echard.
3. (Draughts)
Definition: 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. South.
3. (Draughts)
Definition: 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.
1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. "Left the place in a huff." W. Irving.
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. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
