(n.) The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.
(n.) That which annoys.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
(2) He was 'annoyed' after a phone call with Maxine Carr, in which she'd told him she was going out 'again' with her mother that evening in Grimsby ('Do you like to control people?'
(3) When my pictures were published, some Star Wars fans were annoyed that the house in this picture had been left in such a state of disrepair.
(4) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
(5) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
(6) Although mumbling is frustrating and annoying at times, it may be a helpful clue to some of the client's most anxiety-provoking thoughts or feelings.
(7) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(8) It’s annoying that we haven’t stretched our lead but we’ve got to accept that and take it forward.
(9) It is difficult to prove that noise is detrimental to our health; many people are annoyed by noise; however, only particular groups (children, the elderly, the handicapped, people who wear a hearing aid, people with heart disease) are affected as far as health is concerned, and it is these people who require special protection.
(10) Noise in open-plan computer rooms and annoyance and perceived deterioration in performance associated with it also appears to be a problem that may be similarly categorized.
(11) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
(12) Our government understands that we have to help but if they send troops officially, that would annoy Europe, and Nato.
(13) Rather than getting annoyed, you’re feeling comforted.
(14) Amazon and MasterCard don't like it either, and their clients were probably annoyed.
(15) His annoyance was memorably captured by a BBC film crew for a documentary.
(16) And you can see that some writers' talents are fed by great exposure to society and then there are others – DH Lawrence is a good example – who think they want acceptance but actually they can't stand it and they've got to annoy people by pointing out uncomfortable things, and that's more me.
(17) Merkel will be annoyed that a group set up by the Tories has given a platform to her opponents.
(18) Information on safety and side effects is also presented, such as a possible increase in serum cholesterol levels and annoying side effects that may severely limit widespread use of this food supplement.
(19) After the second such call, my wife became annoyed at the intrusion he was making in our weekend.
(20) Irritations are mainly due to the particulate phase of environmental tobacco smoke, whereas the gas phase is to a large extent responsible for annoyance.
Huff
Definition:
(v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
(v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
(v. t.) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
(v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
(v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
(n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only gametocytes of the last species were found; they are similar to those of Plasmodium lemuris Huff and Hoogstraal, 1963.
(2) We’re meant to get into a choreographed huff about train fares.
(3) The home side lost Raheem Sterling, who injured a groin in a challenge with Juan Mata, and even when they pinned back their opponents for periods of the second half it was a lot of huff and puff without too much guile.
(4) "Huff was maybe sweeter and more melodic," Gamble agrees, warming to my notion that he was maybe the Lennon to Huff's McCartney.
(5) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
(6) These were forerunners of today's "conscious hip-hop" (not for nothing is Gamble and Huff's catalogue among the most ransacked by rappers for samples).
(7) Lara Flynn Boyle The break-out star of the show, who played Donna Hayward, enjoyed a patchy career in film (Wayne's World, Men in Black II), later returning to TV to appear in long-running legal drama The Practice, as well as Las Vegas and Huff.
(8) Hughes had sent on Mame Diouf for Shaqiri, a move that had the Swiss punching a seat and plonking himself down in a major huff.
(9) "Dressing for pleasure" and "fun fashion" get a bad rap, especially for women in their middle age, as it is generally assumed that this is a euphemism for women dressing like clowns and not realising that, at their age (huff, huff), they should be wearing beige cashmere.
(10) Anyway, shadow ministers huff, what’s so wrong with minority government?
(11) "There was no blood on the carpet, nobody went off in a huff and we all ended up firm friends and happy with the result," she said.
(12) The Westminster parliament can huff and puff, but – as visits to China by the prime minister, the chancellor and the mayor of London all show – we need them more than they need us.
(13) Furthermore, there are only two published case histories of dystocia in the snake (Huff 1976, Hime 1976) and thus this case was considered to be of particular interest.
(14) "Everything has its ups and downs," Huff says, echoing Craig Werner's assessment of Philly as "the party [with a] tormented soul".
(15) In walks a rather dishevelled looking Lil Wayne, who seems to be in a huff about an autograph hunter who was waiting in the lobby.
(16) There are lots of angry faces and disgruntled huffs from commuters.
(17) I get the feeling that in the last week or so, doctors generally are beginning to realise that I and Jeremy Hunt may be right, however noisily their leaders may huff and puff.
(18) Don’t take all the huff and puff of the new comer in the US seriously,” Khamenei said, according to the transcript of his speech on his official website.
(19) In the pros, Nevin would have been on top, perhaps, but amateur scoring is so different (a point lost on NBC's Teddy Atlas before the US network went home in a huff), more speed-chess with gloves, and Campbell kept his lead, 9-8 after two rounds, with long, raking southpaw lefts as the Irishman planted his feet to score with heavier shots.
(20) He obviously has a talent for writing that I can't help thinking could be better channelled elsewhere than celebrity angsting on the Huff Post.