"uffish" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From its sound; Carroll explained the word as \"a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more uffish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most uffish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)",
          "text": "And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark […] , London: Macmillan, Fit the Fourth.⁠ The Hunting:",
          "text": "The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal, volumes 52-53:",
          "text": "Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "grumpy, ill-tempered"
      ],
      "id": "en-uffish-en-adj-HeLOXyig",
      "links": [
        [
          "grumpy",
          "grumpy"
        ],
        [
          "ill-tempered",
          "ill-tempered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonce-word"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "ŭf'ĭsh"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌfɪʃ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "uffish"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From its sound; Carroll explained the word as \"a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more uffish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most uffish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)",
          "text": "And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark […] , London: Macmillan, Fit the Fourth.⁠ The Hunting:",
          "text": "The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal, volumes 52-53:",
          "text": "Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "grumpy, ill-tempered"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grumpy",
          "grumpy"
        ],
        [
          "ill-tempered",
          "ill-tempered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonce-word"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "ŭf'ĭsh"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌfɪʃ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "uffish"
}