(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.
Huffy
Definition:
(a.) Puffed up; as, huffy bread.
(a.) Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Romney gets all huffy: "I ran the state of Massachusetts as a governor ... and balanced the budget all four years," but doesn't mention that's required by law anyway.
(2) It's a mixture of good and bad, but the thing that's most striking is how ignorant most people are about these things, and how huffy and upset drug companies get when you start to talk about it.
(3) ▶ A bad spell: Ex-wizard Daniel Radcliffe boarded the controversy train from platform huffy as he renounced his support for the Lib Dems and attacked the Academy voters for overlooking Harry Potter in the Oscar nominations .
(4) In April 1982, just before a parliamentary by-election at Beaconsfield, the Labour candidate sent a huffy letter to the local paper denying that he was a Bennite.
(5) Plasmodium huffi Muniz, Soares & Battista is undoubtedly a synonym pro parte for the last.