Definition of huff

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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.

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Huffingly :: Huffingly (adv.) Blusteringly; arrogantly.
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.
Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing..
Evasive :: Evasive (a.) Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice..
Huffcap :: Huffcap (n.) A blusterer; a bully.
Breakdown :: Breakdown (n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time..
Huffish :: Huffish (a.) Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.
Chuffily :: Chuffily (adv.) Clownishly; surlily.
Shuffle :: Shuffle (n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion..
Huffing :: Huffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Huf.
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
Whist :: Whist (n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
Shufflecap :: Shufflecap (n.) A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.
Chuffiness :: Chuffiness (n.) The quality of being chuffy.
Shuffling :: Shuffling (a.) Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse..
Shuffling :: Shuffling (a.) Moving with a dragging, scraping step..
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..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut..
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