See miff in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "a state of being offended",
"word": "ĉagreniĝo"
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"sense": "a state of being offended",
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"word": "Verstimmung"
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"sense": "a state of being offended",
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"ref": "1805 March 12, Bernard DeVoto, editor, The journals of Lewis and Clark, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1953, Clark's journal, page 85:",
"text": "he [our Interpreter Shabonah] will not agree to work let our Situation be what it may nor Stand a guard, and if miffed with any man he wishes to return when he pleases",
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"text": "1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet\n[…] answered my Thetis, a little miffed perhaps -- to use the women's phrase — that I turned the conversation upon my former partner, rather than addressed it to herself."
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"text": "1911, James Oliver Curwood, Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police\n\"Don't get miffed about it, man,\" returned Nome with an irritating laugh."
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"(transitive, usually used in the passive) To offend slightly."
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"ref": "c. 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To Simplicity”, in Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers:",
"text": "I amble on; yet, though I know not why, / So sad I am!—but should a friend and I / Grow cool and miff, O! I am very sad!",
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"text": "1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable\nShe miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it."
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"(intransitive) To become slightly offended."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razsǎrdvam",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "разсърдвам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "ofendre"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"tags": [
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"word": "namíchnout"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"tags": [
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"word": "nakrknout"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "verontwaardigen"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "ĉagreni"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "loukata"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "fâcher"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "agraviar"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "verstimmen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "beleidigen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "offendere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "amofinar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to offend slightly",
"word": "ofensar"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "musja se",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"word": "муся се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎrdja se",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"word": "сърдя се"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"tags": [
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"word": "namíchnout se"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
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"word": "nakrknout se"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"word": "zich gekrenkt voelen"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"word": "ĉagreniĝi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"word": "loukkaantua"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "lehe'alev",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"word": "להיעלב"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"word": "amofinar-se"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obižátʹsja",
"sense": "to become slightly offended",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "обижа́ться"
}
],
"word": "miff"
}
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