Definitions for huffhʌf

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

huffhʌf(n.; v.)huffed, huff•ing.

  1. (n.)a fit of resentment:

    to walk out in a huff.

  2. (v.t.)to give offense to; make angry.

  3. to treat with arrogance or contempt; bully.

  4. (v.i.)to take offense; speak indignantly.

  5. to puff or blow; breathe heavily.

Origin of huff:

1575–85; imit.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. huff, miff, seeing red(verb)

    a state of irritation or annoyance

  2. huff, snort(verb)

    inhale recreational drugs

    "The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day"; "the kids were huffing glue"

  3. puff, huff, chuff(verb)

    blow hard and loudly

    "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"

Wiktionary

  1. huff(Noun)

    A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

    With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.

  2. huff(Noun)

    An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

    Freyja left in a huff.

  3. huff(Noun)

    A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance.

    Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge of wit. uE000209390uE001 South.

  4. huff(Verb)

    To breathe heavily.

    The run left him huffing and puffing.

  5. huff(Verb)

    To inhale psychoactive inhalants

  6. huff(Verb)

    To say in a huffy manner

  7. huff(Verb)

    To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it)

Webster Dictionary

  1. Huff(verb)

    to swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air

  2. Huff(verb)

    to treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully

  3. Huff(verb)

    to remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3

  4. Huff(verb)

    to enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs

  5. Huff(verb)

    to bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense

  6. Huff(verb)

    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

  7. Huff(noun)

    a swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage

  8. Huff(noun)

    a boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. huff

    To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called ‘HUFF’ or some variant thereof. Oppose puff. Compare crunch, compress.


Translations for huff

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

huff(noun)

being or becoming silent because one is angry, displeased etc

He is in a huff; He went into a huff.

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