huff
IPA: hˈʌf
noun
- 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.
- (draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
- An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
- An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
- An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
- A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.
verb
- (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.
- (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- (transitive, archaic) To vex; to offend.
- (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
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