Definitions for HUFF
hʌfhuff

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. huff, miff, seeing redverb

   a state of irritation or annoyance

2. huff, snortverb

   inhale recreational drugs

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

3. puff, huff, chuffverb

   blow hard and loudly

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. huffnoun

   A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

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

2. huffnoun

   An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

   Freyja left in a huff.

3. huffnoun

   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. huffverb

   To breathe heavily.

   The run left him huffing and puffing.

5. huffverb

   To inhale psychoactive inhalants

6. huffverb

   To say in a huffy manner

7. huffverb

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HUFFnoun

   So in some provinces we still say the bread huffs up, when it begins to heave or ferment: huff, therefore, may be ferment. To be in a huff is then to be in a ferment, as we now speak.

   Etymology: from hove, or hoven, swelled:

   1. Swell of sudden anger or arrogance.

   Quoth Ralpho, honour’s but a word
   To swear by only in a lord;
   In others it is but a huff,
   To vapour with instead of proof. Hudibras, p. ii.

   His frowns kept multitudes in awe,
   Before the bluster of whose huff
   All hats, as in a storm, flew off. Hudibras.

   We have the apprehensions of a change to keep a check upon us in the very huff of our greatness. Roger L'Estrange.

   A Spaniard was wonderfully upon the huff about his extraction. Roger L'Estrange.

   No man goes about to ensnare or circumvent another in a passion, to lay trains, and give secret blows in a present huff. Robert South, Sermons.

   2. A wretch swelled with a false opinion of his own value.

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

   As for you, colonel huff-cap, we shall try before a civil magistrate who’s the greater plotter. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

2. To Huffverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To swell; to puff.

   In many wild birds the diaphragm may easily be huffed up with air, and blown in at the windpipe. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. Sac.

   2. To hector; to treat with insolence and arrogance, or brutality.

3. To Huffverb

   To bluster; to storm; to bounce; to swell with indignation or pride.

   This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance, as a thing below them. South.

   A huffing, shining, flatt’ring, cringing coward,
   A cankerworm of peace, was rais’d above him. Thomas Otway.

   A thief and justice, fool and knave,
   A huffing officer and slave. Hudibras, p. ii. cant. 3.

   Huffing to cowards, fawning to the brave,
   To knaves a fool, to cred’lous fools a knave. Wentworth Dillon.

   Now what’s his end? O charming glory, say!
   What, a fifth act to crown his huffing play? John Dryden, Juvenal.

   What a small pittance of reason and truth is mixed with those huffing opinions they are swelled with. John Locke.

   When Peg received John’s message, she huffed and stormed like the devil. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull.

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1. huff

   As a verb, "huff" means to breathe heavily, typically when annoyed or frustrated. As a noun, it refers to a fit of petty annoyance or temper.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Huffverb

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

2. Huffverb

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

3. Huffverb

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

4. Huffverb

   to enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs

5. Huffverb

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

6. Huffverb

   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. Huffnoun

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

8. Huffnoun

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

9. Etymology: [Cf. OE. hoove to puff up, blow; prob. of imitative origin.]

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1. Huff

   Huff is an American television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, a psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old client commits suicide in his office. The series follows Huff, his family, and his friend Russell Tupper, played by Oliver Platt, as they navigate life. The first season was broadcast on Showtime between November 7, 2004 and January 30, 2005. The second season premiered on April 2, 2006 and ended on June 25, 2006. Two days before the finale, Showtime announced that the show would not be picked up for a third season, and several plotlines, including the resolution of pending criminal charges against Russell Tupper and the possibility of reconciliation between Huff and Beth were left unresolved. The two-hour pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. Later, production for Huff was moved to Delfino Stages in Los Angeles, California.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Huff

   huf, n. sudden anger or arrogance: a fit of disappointment or anger: a boaster.—v.t. to swell: to bully: to remove a 'man' from the board for not capturing pieces open to him, as in draughts.—v.i. to swell: to bluster.—adjs. Huff′ish, Huff′y, given to huff: insolent: arrogant.—adv. Huff′ishly.—ns. Huff′ishness, Huff′iness. [Imit., like puff; cf. Ger. hauchen, to breathe.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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1. HUFF

   What does HUFF stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the HUFF acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HUFF

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Huff is ranked #612 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Huff surname appeared 55,484 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 19 would have the surname Huff.
   
   81.3% or 45,147 total occurrences were White.
   13.4% or 7,440 total occurrences were Black.
   2.1% or 1,171 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 1,043 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.7% or 388 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 289 total occurrences were Asian.

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1. • Inhale

How to pronounce HUFF?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of HUFF in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of HUFF in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of HUFF in a Sentence

1. Loran Smith:

   When it was time to huff and puff, he knew what we wanted, ... He wasn't gonna quit until he got 'em all out.

2. Prince Albert:

   She didn’t leave Monaco in a huff! she didn’t leave because she was mad at me or anybody else. She was going down to South Africa to reassess her foundation’s work down there and to take a little time off with her brother and some friends.

3. Bill Cosby:

   I walk her out. She does not look angry. She does not say to me, don’t ever do that again, she does n’t walk out with an attitude of a huff, because I think that I ’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever Bill Cosby want to call them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=HUFF
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Huff
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=HUFF
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/HUFF
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=HUFF
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=HUFF
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Huff
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html