Meaning of uffish | Babel Free

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.”

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