Huff
Huff , transitive verb
[Compare Old English 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.
3.
(Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
Huff , intransitive verb
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.
3.
(Draughts) 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 , noun
1.
A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
Left the place in a huff.
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.
Collocations (1)
To take huff , to take offence. — Cowper