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Miffed
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- Seasoned vintage shoppers are understandably miffed that the fashion-hungry public is switched on to the trend.
- Its owner was one of half a dozen elephants, all of which were a little miffed that we'd blocked their path to the watering hole.
- But he and his father are surely right to feel miffed.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
miff
1620s, "fit of ill humor," perhaps imitative of an exclamation of disgust (cf. Ger. muffen "to sulk"). The verb is from 1797. Miffy (adj.) "liable to 'take a miff' " is from 1810; miffed is 1824 (Sir Walter Scott calls it "a women's phrase").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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