Word Finder - huff

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A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

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

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An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

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One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.

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To breathe heavily.

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The run left him huffing and puffing.

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To say in a huffy manner.

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To enlarge; to swell up.

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Bread huffs.

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

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To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.

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To inhale psychoactive inhalants.

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

She left in a huff, and Dusty crossed his arms against Ohio's fall breeze.

Huff and puff a little, break a sweat, but that's about it.

Prissy looked up at me accusingly and gave a small huff.

He then revved away in a big erratic huff.

While personality differences abounded, we'd learned to accommodate one another's quirks with no more than a raised eyebrow or occasional huff.

Exit actor, stage left, in an almighty huff.

Louisa accepted the itinerary in a huff, wishing that their trip could be more spontaneous and carefree.

Don't want to take them off - my faithful slippers are taking the huff!

He upbraided the mother with her hardheartedness, and when she resented his interference he departed in a huff and they never met again.

He'll huff and puff and hoe her blouse down!

Then the pike dropped off, swirling away from the sudden indignity in a great huff of silt.

Not only will you huff and puff your way to a leaner body, you'll begin to see muscles in places you never thought you'd see them including down the center of your stomach.

George Huff has found success on the Christian music charts.

Not all of the women take kindly to being put into the "hot seat," and although Steve has valid points to make more than one woman has become argumentative or even walked away from the situation in a huff.

Usually these games, such as the Speed Dating Game, will show you a caricature of a woman and present you with a selection of possible conversational responses that will either charm your paramour or make her so mad she leaves in a huff.

Their was plenty of huff and puff from all of us, but we lacked guile.

Indeed its founder, Ramananda, who probably flourished in the latter part of the 14th century, according to the traditional account, was originally a SriVaishnava monk, and, having come under the suspicion of laxity in observing the strict rules of food during his peregrinations, and been ordered by his superior (Mahant) to take his meals apart from his brethren, left the monastery in a huff and set up a schismatic math of his own at Benares.

The city is widely known for its institutions, for the most part founded or supported by James Huff Stout (1848-1910), a prominent local lumberman.

The first free travelling library in the state was established here in 1896 by James Huff Stout.