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Meaning of uffish | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
ˈʌfɪʃ

Definitions

grumpy, ill-tempered

nonce-word

Examples

“And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!”
“The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.”
“Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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