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Huffiness

[huhf-ee]

huff·y

[huhf-ee]
adjective, huff·i·er, huff·i·est.
1.
easily offended; touchy.
2.
offended; sulky: a huffy mood.
3.
snobbish; haughty.

Origin:
1670–80; huff + -y1

huff·i·ly, adverb
huff·i·ness, noun


2. surly, sullen, resentful, petulant.

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Huffiness is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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huff (hʌf)
 
n
1.  a passing mood of anger or pique (esp in the phrase in a huff)
 
vb
2.  to make or become angry or resentful
3.  (intr) to blow or puff heavily
4.  draughts Also: blow to remove (an opponent's draught) from the board for failure to make a capture
5.  obsolete (tr) to bully
6.  huffing and puffing empty threats or objections; bluster
 
[C16: of imitative origin; compare puff]
 
'huffish
 
adj
 
'huffy
 
adj
 
'huffily
 
adv
 
'huffishly
 
adv
 
'huffiness
 
n
 
'huffishness
 
n

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huffy definition


  1. mod.
    angry; haughty. : Now, don't get huffy. I said I was sorry, didn't I?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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