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huff^¹

/hʌf/ US, UK
/hɐf/ Australia, New Zealand
/hʊf/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌf

Where it comes from

Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).

noun huffs

A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
figuratively A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. in a huff
obsolete One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster. Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge [...] of wit.
The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

verb huffs · huffing · huffed

intransitive To breathe heavily. The run left him huffing and puffing.
intransitive To say in a huffy manner.
intransitive To enlarge; to swell up. Bread huffs.
intransitive To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense. This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.
transitive To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector. […] I was ſent for by the marſhall, huffed and hectored ſtrangely, thretned, &c., in fine, muſte give bonds to the good behaviour; I refuſed, […]
archaic, transitive To vex; to offend. Signior Riccabocca had become very intimate, as we have seen, at the Parsonage. But not so at the Hall. For though the Squire was inclined to be very friendly to all his neighbours he was, like most country gentlemen, rather easily huffed.
transitive To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
transitive To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

Huff^²

/hʌf/

Sounds like huff · Rhymes with -ʌf

proper noun Huffs · Houff

countable, uncountable A surname.
countable, uncountable A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
countable, uncountable A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: chuff, snort, puff, miff, seeing red, snit, pique, duff, corzine, harumph, whuff, sigh, grunt, sough, snuffling, gruntle

Translations

Every language

noun condition of anger, annoyance, disgust etc.

Deutsch	Verärgerung

verb to breathe heavily

Español	resoplar, resollar
हिन्दी	हाँफना hā̃phnā
Français	souffler, souffler comme un bœuf
Deutsch	schnauben, heftig schnaufen
Русский	пыхтеть pyxtetʹ

verb to enlarge; to swell up

Deutsch	aufquellen, aufgehen

verb to bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense

Deutsch	aufblasen, (vor Wut) schnauben, mächtig aufregen

verb to treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector

Deutsch	aufbauen vor, einschüchternd behandeln

verb to inhale psychoactive inhalants

中文	吸 xī
Français	sniffer
Deutsch	reinziehen
Русский	нюхать njuxatʹ, нюхнуть njuxnutʹ

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@misc{huff_2026,
  title = {huff},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/huff},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}