1. huff - Noun
2. huff - Verb
3. Huff - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff. Groucho Marx
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well. Aidan Chambers
His huff arrived and he departed in it. Alexander Woollcott
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. Joseph Jacobs
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. Sherwood Smith
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. Brennan Manning