(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.
Puff
Definition:
(n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
(n.) Anything light and filled with air.
(n.) A puffball.
(n.) a kind of light pastry.
(n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
(n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
(n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
(n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
(n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
(n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
(n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
(v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
(v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
(v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
(v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
(a.) Puffed up; vain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(3) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(4) In regions without temperature-induced puffs RNA synthesis and its transport are apparently delayed under influence of heat shock.
(5) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(6) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(7) These two puffs are located at the end of the E12 inversion.
(8) The results that while in the control T3L and T2L nuclei (22 degrees C), the 93D puff shows a higher level of transcriptional activity than in the Oregon R+ or compound stocks used as controls, in T3L and T2L nuclei from heat-shocked sets (37 degrees C), 93D does not show further induction compared with heat-shocked controls, and the 87C puff is 2.8 times more active than the 87A puff.
(9) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
(10) Similar to area 17, more GABA- and glycine-labeled neurons were observed within the puff regions than in nonpuff regions.
(11) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(12) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(13) In experiment 3, average puff volumes and CO boosts were examined during smoking periods with short (3, 10, and 30 minutes) deprivation intervals.
(14) 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.
(15) These data support previous suggestions indicating a substantial contribution of transcriptional products from small puffs and interbands to the whole transcriptional system of polytene chromosomes.
(16) The number of NPY-containing neurons in the puffs is substantially less than that expected in an equal volume of the interpuffs (X2 = 13.86; df = 1; P less than 0.001).
(17) The rearing of insects at a temperature of 29 degrees resulted in puff changes: the activity of some puffs increased or depressed, some puffs were inhibited, other puffs were induced newly.
(18) The CO yields were found to increase with puff volume and tobacco moisture, decrease with increased paper porosity, but remain essentially constant with puff duration.
(19) T he Japanese have a saying”, said Willi Hartenstein, pausing for a reflective puff on a cheroot.
(20) Dosage for an acute attack in children is 1 puff (200 micrograms), repeated within 5 minutes if necessary; in adults 1-3 puffs can be given.