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HUFF
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Verb
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).
Proper noun
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
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HEEDLESS
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