HUFFING

puffing, huffing, snorting

(noun) an act of forcible exhalation

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

huffing (plural huffings)

(colloquial) The act of inhaling psychoactive inhalants.

Verb

huffing

present participle of huff

Source: Wiktionary

HUFF

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