"huff" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /hʌf/ Audio: en-us-huff.ogg [US] Forms: huffs [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌf Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|*hough}} *hough, {{m|sco|hech||to breathe hard, pant}} hech (“to breathe hard, pant”), {{cog|de|hauchen||to breathe}} German hauchen (“to breathe”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} huff (plural huffs)
  1. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
    Sense id: en-huff-en-noun-X~3SmCHy
  2. An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
    Sense id: en-huff-en-noun-rtGiITfF
  3. (obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-huff-en-noun-33q6mGw9
  4. (draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
    Sense id: en-huff-en-noun-2hNX4hLO

Verb

IPA: /hʌf/ Audio: en-us-huff.ogg [US] Forms: huffs [present, singular, third-person], huffing [participle, present], huffed [participle, past], huffed [past]
Rhymes: -ʌf Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|*hough}} *hough, {{m|sco|hech||to breathe hard, pant}} hech (“to breathe hard, pant”), {{cog|de|hauchen||to breathe}} German hauchen (“to breathe”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} huff (third-person singular simple present huffs, present participle huffing, simple past and past participle huffed)
  1. (intransitive) To breathe heavily. Tags: intransitive Translations (to breathe heavily): пухтя (puhtja) (Bulgarian), huohottaa (Finnish), puhkua (Finnish), puhista (Finnish), schnauben (German), heftig schnaufen (German), हाँफना (hā̃phnā) (Hindi), пыхтеть (pyxtetʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), resoplar (Spanish), resollar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-Tj6a6kuk Disambiguation of 'to breathe heavily': 95 1 1 1 1 0 1 1
  2. (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-8Es1db-e
  3. (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up. Tags: intransitive Translations (to enlarge; to swell up): aufquellen (German), aufgehen (German)
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-SPMvfYX8 Disambiguation of 'to enlarge; to swell up': 0 0 88 7 2 1 1 1
  4. (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense. Tags: intransitive Translations (to bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense): tuhahtaa (Finnish), aufblasen [reflexive] (German), (vor Wut) schnauben (German), mächtig aufregen [reflexive] (German)
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-f0aypQeg Disambiguation of 'to bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense': 0 0 5 81 7 5 0 1
  5. (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector. Tags: transitive Translations (to treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector): aufbauen vor [reflexive] (German), einschüchternd behandeln (German)
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-YMfXA-cs Disambiguation of 'to treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector': 0 0 1 9 87 1 0 1
  6. (transitive, archaic) To vex; to offend. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-8i4ML9T7
  7. (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants. Tags: transitive Translations (to inhale psychoactive inhalants): impata (Finnish), reinziehen [reflexive] (German), нюхать (njuxatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), нюхнуть (njuxnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-Ptm8FhXg Disambiguation of 'to inhale psychoactive inhalants': 1 0 2 1 1 1 93 1
  8. (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-huff-en-verb-stI7Yw10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: huff and puff, huff-cap, huff off, huff paste, in a huff, take huff

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "4 February 1684, William Vaughan, “[Appendix.] XXXI. A Letter from William Vaughan, Esq. Containing a Journal of Transactions during His Imprisonment, &c. to Nathaniel Weare, Esq. Agent in London.”, in Jeremy Belknap, The History of New-Hampshire. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Re-printed for the author, published 1792, →OCLC, page lix",
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        "(intransitive) To breathe heavily."
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        "To say in a huffy manner."
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        "(intransitive) To say in a huffy manner."
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        "To enlarge; to swell up."
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        "(intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up."
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          "ref": "2023-01-20, Dan Bilefsky, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "After all, she huffed, Emily (played by Lily Collins) has been living in the French capital for about a year and had a Champagne brand as her client at the fictional luxury marketing firm, Savoir, where she worked.",
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        }
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        "(intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense."
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          "text": "[…] I was ſent for by the marſhall, huffed and hectored ſtrangely, thretned, &c., in fine, muſte give bonds to the good behaviour; I refuſed, […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1720, Laurence Echard, The history of England: from the first entrance of Julius Caesar and the Romans to the end of the reign of King James the first containing the space of 1678 years",
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        "(transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector."
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Varieties in English Life, page 42",
          "text": "Signior Riccabocca had become very intimate, as we have seen, at the Parsonage. But not so at the Hall. For though the Squire was inclined to be very friendly to all his neighbours he was, like most country gentlemen, rather easily huffed.",
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        "(transitive, archaic) To vex; to offend."
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        "To inhale psychoactive inhalants."
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          "inhale"
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        "(transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants."
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        "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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        "(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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      "ipa": "/hʌf/"
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      "rhymes": "-ʌf"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "puhtja",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "пухтя"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "huohottaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "puhkua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "puhista"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "schnauben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "heftig schnaufen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "hā̃phnā",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "हाँफना"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pyxtetʹ",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "пыхтеть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "resoplar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to breathe heavily",
      "word": "resollar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to enlarge; to swell up",
      "word": "aufquellen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to enlarge; to swell up",
      "word": "aufgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense",
      "word": "tuhahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "aufblasen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense",
      "word": "(vor Wut) schnauben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "mächtig aufregen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "aufbauen vor"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector",
      "word": "einschüchternd behandeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to inhale psychoactive inhalants",
      "word": "impata"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to inhale psychoactive inhalants",
      "tags": [
        "reflexive"
      ],
      "word": "reinziehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "njuxatʹ",
      "sense": "to inhale psychoactive inhalants",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "нюхать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "njuxnutʹ",
      "sense": "to inhale psychoactive inhalants",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "нюхнуть"
    }
  ],
  "word": "huff"
}

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