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huff

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Noun

  1. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
  2. A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
  3. One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
  4. The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

Verb

  1. To breathe heavily.
  2. To say in a huffy manner.
  3. To enlarge; to swell up.
  4. To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
  5. To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
  6. To vex; to offend.
  7. To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
  8. To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United States: A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
  3. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
  4. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
  5. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
  6. A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.

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