"miffed" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /mɪft/ Audio: en-us-miffed.ogg [US] Forms: more miffed [comparative], most miffed [superlative]
enPR: mĭft Rhymes: -ɪft Etymology: miff + -ed Etymology templates: {{af|en|miff|-ed}} miff + -ed Head templates: {{en-adj}} miffed (comparative more miffed, superlative most miffed)
  1. (informal) Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, put out or annoyed. Tags: informal Translations (somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, put out or annoyed): 有點惱火 (Chinese Mandarin), 有点恼火 (yǒudiǎn nǎohuǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), geïrriteerd (Dutch), op de tenen getrapt (Dutch), loukkaantunut (Finnish), ärsyyntynyt (Finnish), irrité (French), angefressen [colloquial] (German), übelgenommen (German), verschnupft [colloquial] (German), tezitra (Malagasy), monamonaina (Malagasy), leo (Malagasy), poirytowany (Polish), indignado(a) [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), разозлённый (razozljónnyj) (Russian), раздражённый (razdražónnyj) (Russian), indignado (Spanish), irritado (Spanish), sur (Swedish), småsur (Swedish), dargın (Turkish), gücenmiş (Turkish), kırılmış (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-miffed-en-adj-DajcqcW7 Disambiguation of 'somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, put out or annoyed': 96 4
  2. (UK, regional) Confused; unable to understand. Tags: UK, regional Categories (topical): Emotions
    Sense id: en-miffed-en-adj-jEz69Fww Disambiguation of Emotions: 14 55 31 Categories (other): British English, Regional English

Verb

IPA: /mɪft/ Audio: en-us-miffed.ogg [US]
enPR: mĭft Rhymes: -ɪft Etymology: miff + -ed Etymology templates: {{af|en|miff|-ed}} miff + -ed Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} miffed
  1. simple past and past participle of miff Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: miff
    Sense id: en-miffed-en-verb-fDZKeK2O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ed Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 19 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ed: 23 28 49

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "miff"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "simple past and past participle of miff"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "miff",
          "miff#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪft/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪft"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-miffed.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/En-us-miffed.ogg/En-us-miffed.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/En-us-miffed.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "mĭft"
    }
  ],
  "word": "miffed"
}

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