Meaning of Huff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   countable, uncountable
4. A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
   countable, uncountable
5. A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
   figuratively
6. An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
   countable, uncountable
7. One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
   obsolete
8. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
   countable, uncountable
9. The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
10. An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
    countable, uncountable
11. A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“in a huff”

“Such wickedness had never come into his head; but he had a certain pleasure in being the confidential friend of a very pretty woman; and when he heard that that pretty woman's husband was jealous, the pleasure was enhanced rather than otherwise. On that Sunday, as he had left the house in Curzon Street, he had told Stanbury that Trevelyan [the husband] had just gone off in a huff, which was true enough, and he had walked from thence down Clarges Street, and across Piccadilly to St. James's Street, with a jauntier step than usual, because he was aware that he himself had been the occasion of that trouble.”

“Tom Bower’s 2024 book, The House of Beckham, painted a rather snide portrait of the marriage, in which Beckham is constantly surrounded by lovelies, and Victoria is in a constant huff about it.”

“Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge [...] of wit.”

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