Definition of huff

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Huff (v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.

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Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense..
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air..
Shuffling :: Shuffling (a.) Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse..
Chuffy :: Chuffy (a.) Rough; clownish; surly.
Huffish :: Huffish (a.) Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.
Huffy :: Huffy (a.) Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny..
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
Huffiness :: Huffiness (n.) The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.
Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Huff :: Huff (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time..
Shamble :: Shamble (v. i.) To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along..
Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs..
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down..
Tergiversate :: Tergiversate (v. i.) To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand..
Huffing :: Huffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huf.
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