Definitions for huffiness

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

huff•yˈhʌf i(adj.)huff•i•er, huff•i•est.

  1. easily offended; touchy.

  2. snobbish; haughty.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

Origin of huffy:

1670–80

huff′i•ness(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. huffiness(noun)

    a passing state of anger and resentment

Wiktionary

  1. huffiness(Noun)

    The property of being huffy.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Huffiness(noun)

    the state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper


Translations for huffiness

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

huffiness(noun)

easily offended, and likely to go into a huff.

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