huff
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
- A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
- One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
- The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
Verb
- To breathe heavily.
- To say in a huffy manner.
- To enlarge; to swell up.
- To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- To vex; to offend.
- To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
Proper noun
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States: A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
- A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
- A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
- A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
- A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.
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