huff
Speech parts
1. huff - Noun
2. huff - Verb
3. Huff - Proper noun
Meaning
To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
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.
A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
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You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
Little pig, little pig, let me come in. To which the pig answered: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin. The wolf answered to that, Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the house down.
No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.