Meaning

4 senses
  1. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

    With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.

  2. (figuratively)A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

    in a huff

    Verärgerung

  3. The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

  4. (obsolete)One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.

More definitions
  • a state of irritation or annoyance

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Tom stormed off in a huff.

    ruТом умчался в гневе. — odexed

  2. She stormed off in a huff.

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  3. They sat in the garage, huffing paint.

  4. All you can hear is the huffing and puffing of horses.

  5. Mary made an indignant noise and turned away from Tom in a huff.

    deMaria gab einen empörten Ton von sich und wandte sich dann beleidigt von Tom ab. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

1 languages
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By meaning 1
condition of anger, annoyance, disgust etc.:

Origin

Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe har

Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).

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Forms

plural: huffs
Singularhuff
Pluralhuffs

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedhuffy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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