See huff in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023 January 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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"(draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it)."
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}
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "condition of anger, annoyance, disgust etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Verärgerung"
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"feminine"
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"word": "stuaic"
}
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"word": "huff and puff"
},
{
"word": "huff-cap"
},
{
"word": "huff off"
},
{
"word": "huff paste"
},
{
"word": "in a huff"
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{
"word": "take huff"
}
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"text": "The run left him huffing and puffing.",
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"glosses": [
"To breathe heavily."
],
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"(intransitive) To breathe heavily."
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
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"glosses": [
"To say in a huffy manner."
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"huffy",
"huffy"
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"(intransitive) To say in a huffy manner."
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"text": "Bread huffs.",
"type": "example"
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],
"glosses": [
"To enlarge; to swell up."
],
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[
"enlarge",
"enlarge"
],
[
"swell up",
"swell up"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up."
],
"tags": [
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]
},
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1691, Robert South, On the nature and measure of conscience:",
"text": "This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 January 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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense."
],
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"bluster",
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[
"swell",
"swell#Verb"
],
[
"anger",
"anger#Noun"
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[
"arrogance",
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],
[
"pride",
"pride"
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[
"storm",
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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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"intransitive"
]
},
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1684 February 4, 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:",
"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, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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:",
"text": "You must not think to huff us.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector."
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[
"insolence",
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"rudely",
"rudely"
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"bully",
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"(transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector."
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"transitive"
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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.",
"type": "quote"
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"glosses": [
"To vex; to offend."
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"vex",
"vex"
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"offend"
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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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[
"psychoactive",
"psychoactive"
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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)."
],
"links": [
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"forfeit",
"forfeit"
]
],
"qualifier": "draughts",
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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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"transitive"
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}
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"translations": [
{
"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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