huffing
/ (ˈhʌfɪŋ) /
slang the practice of inhaling toxic fumes from glue and other household products for their intoxicating effects
Derived forms of huffing
- huffer, noun
Words Nearby huffing
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How to use huffing in a sentence
To fail to do so is regarded as extremely bad manners and can lead to much huffing and puffing.
Paris’s New Metro Etiquette Manual is a Rosetta Stone for Travelers | Christopher Dickey | December 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“While were shooting we read a tabloid blog post that said Vanessa looked like a white-trash paint-huffing girl,” said Bivens.
The Secrets Behind the Bikinis of Harmony Korine’s New Film, ‘Spring Breakers’ | Misty White Sidell | March 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe looked like such a fool, pointing and gesturing and huffing and puffing.
Various Thoughts: Demography, Rove, Morris, the Great Nate, &c. | Michael Tomasky | November 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOne wonders whether the government is huffing and puffing to cover up its own incompetence.
Spain won, hallelujah, but not after much huffing and puffing to go alongside their geometric, incisive elegance on the ball.
He who will establish this proposition by authority and huffing discovers his reason to be very weak.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete | Michel de MontaigneI have so lost them when I was half fit to keep them: they are sooner prevailed upon by courtesy than huffing.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete | Michel de MontaigneAfter easing himself into a chair, and going through some prefatory huffing and puffing, Goode came out with it.
Murder in the Gunroom | Henry Beam PiperIt was one of the best jobs of well-verbalized huffing she'd heard, even from the professor.
Legacy | James H SchmitzYes, sir: he scorned all Famagosta when he was in his huffing, and now he lies puffing for wind, they say they scorn him.
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