(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.
Tuff
Definition:
(n.) Same as Tufa.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Bandelier national monument , tucked deep inside Frijoles Canyon, ancient Puebloan people used hand tools to shape natural caves in the tuff into shelters known as cavates.
(2) Isotopic determinations on a tuff below the fossiliferous horizon gives dates of 4.96 my and 5.25 my.
(3) While talking an assailant into surrendering may not always be an option, the fact that Tuff successfully did so is a testament to the fact that violence does not always have to be the first answer and that tragic situations can be resolved without the use of force.
(4) Antoinette Tuff, a school clerk at the Ronald E McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, saw 20-year-old Brandon Michael Hill enter the school with an assault rifle and several other weapons.
(5) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian We had a really nice house and fields of tomatoes [in Mexico] but it was so unsafe Luis Galvan Galvan’s Daca permission expires next year.
(6) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
(7) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
(8) The hominid tracks in Tuff 7 at Site G in the Garusi River Valley demonstrate bipedality at a mid-Pliocene datum.
(9) Bimesaraic arteriography may show typical images where extravasation of contrast medium is associated with vascular tuft or "tuff".
(10) Over time, this ash layer solidified into a soft, easily eroded, whitish rock called tuff.
(11) Around 30m years ago, rhinos, camels, giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats roamed a lush grassland before being buried by a series of volcanic eruptions, which preserved their bones in colourful layers of tuff.
(12) Instead of resorting to violence, the school implemented its evacuation procedures and Tuff engaged Hill in a conversation .
(13) Antoinette Tuff showed us it can be done another way, and we need to follow her lead.
(14) Ultrastructurally 4 basic types of inclusion bodies in Schwann cells could be demonstrated (pleo-morphic "zebra body"-like inclusions, double-lamellated inclusions, "tuff-stone"-like inclusions, granular osmiophilic inclusions).
(15) Epidemiological and environmental surveys in the Cappadocian region of Turkey have linked the high incidence of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma in the occupants of some villages with the zeolite fibres released from the locally occurring volcanic tuff.
(16) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian In the midst of a prolonged drought, vegetable and fruit growers are angry that rivers are allowed to carry more of their water out to sea to help preserve an endangered fish, the delta smelt, while water for irrigation is in effect rationed.
(17) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian If Galvan is afraid of being forced out of the country, Jenny Beard is fearful of staying.
(18) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Luis Galvan gets why a lot of people in Porterville voted for Trump even if he thinks they are mistaken.
(19) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Beard complained and the co-worker was reprimanded.
(20) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Maddox and Galvan live in Porterville, a small, conservative city nestled under the Sierra Nevada mountains, far from the prosperity and glamour of California’s coast.