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
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
