| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. Blusteringly; arrogantly.[Websters]
2. In an offending manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a vexing or roiling manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a vexed, irritating, peeved or disgruntled manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In an annoying or worried manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an insulting manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a galling manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In an intimidating manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a blustering manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective huffing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Huffing) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb huff.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (huff) | 1. Inhale recreational drugs; "the kids were huffing glue".[Wordnet]. 2. Blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain".[Wordnet]. 3. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.[Websters]. 4. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.[Websters]. 5. To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece).[Websters]. 6. To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.[Websters]. 7. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.[Websters]. 8. 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.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: huffing, huffed, huffs, huffer, huffers, huffingly and huffedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"HUFFINGLY" is a common misspelling or typo for: chuffingly. |
Date "HUFFINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1658. (references) |
| Note: Huffingly \Huff"ing*ly\, adverb. Blusteringly; arrogantly.. (references) |
Specialty Definition: huff
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Huff v. To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called `HUFF' or some variant thereof. Oppose puff. Compare crunch, compress. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A swell of sudden anger or arrogance. A Spaniard was wonderfully upon the huff about his extraction.. | 2: [Noun] A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. Lewd shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the badge of wit.. | 3: [Verb] To swell; to enlarge; to puff up.. | 4: [Verb] To hector; to bully; to treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence.. | 5: [Verb] To swell; to dilate or enlarge; as, the bread huffs.. | 6: [Verb] To bluster; to swell with anger, pride or arrogance; to storm. This arrogant conceit made them huff at the doctrine of repentance. A huffing, shining, flattering, cringing coward.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Health | Inhalants. (references) | ||
| Slang | Adjective. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: Large, defined muscles. Context: Used in describing the look of other players. Social Source: Football players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck. (references) | 2: [Noun] An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. She left in a huff. (references) | 3: [Verb] A colloquial term describing the act of inhaling psychoactive inhalants. (references) | 4: [Verb] To breathe heavily. The run left him huffing and puffing. (references) |
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Common Expressions: huff
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Aubrey Huff | Aubrey Lewis Huff (born December 20, 1976 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a Major League Baseball player for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He has been a professional player and a member of the Devil Rays since the year 2000. (references) | ||
| Gamble and Huff | Kenneth Gamble (born on August 11, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon Huff (born in 1942 in Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and record production team. Both of African-American origin, Gamble and Huff have, both separately and together, written and produced over 170 gold and platinum records and were pioneers of Philadelphia soul and the in-house creative team for the Philadelphia International record label. (references) | ||
| George Huff | George Huff (born November 4, 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American singer, fifth-place finalist on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol. (references) | ||
| Huff (TV series) | Huff is a Showtime television series about a successful psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old client commits suicide in his office. After years of helping clients deal with their traumas, he now has to deal with his own, and is forced to re-evaluate his career and his entire take on life. (references) | ||
| Huff and puff apparatus | This huff and puff apparatus is used in school biology labs to demonstrate that carbon dioxide is a product of respiration. A pupil breathes in and out of the middle tube. The glass tubing is arranged in such a way that one flask bubbles as the pupils breathes in, the other as the pupil breathes out. A suitable carbon dioxide indicator, such as lime water or bicarbonate indicator shows the increased presence of carbon dioxide in the outgoing breath. (references) | ||
| Janice Huff | A native New Yorker, Janice Huff (born September 1, 1960) joined WNBC-TV in 1995 as weekend meteorologist on Today in New York and News Channel 4 at 6PM and 11PM. In 1996 she moved to the weekday evening 6PM and 11PM broadcasts, adding duties on Live at Five in 2000 when Al Roker moved to The Today Show exclusively. Nationally she can be seen on the weekend edition of The Today Show. Huff has subbed for Willard Scott, and Al Roker on the weekday edition of The Today Show as the meteorologist from 1995 to the present date and for Joe Witte on the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise as the meteorologist from 1995 to 1999. She previously worked at KSDK-TV in St. Louis, Missouri. (references) | ||
| Sam Huff | Robert Lee Huff (born October 4, 1934, Morgantown, West Virginia near Pittsburgh) is a former football linebacker who played for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. He was an All-American guard at West Virginia University. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982. He is an NFL legend, remembered best for his ability to stop even the best running backs, and to stop them violently. His best known feuds were with running backs Jim Taylor, and Jim Brown. (references) | ||
| Tanya Huff | Tanya Sue Huff (1957 - ) is a Canadian fantasy author born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (references) | ||
| To take huff | To take offence. --Cowper. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: huff
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Huff separator | Mining | Type of electrostatic separator used in ore treatment. (references) | |
| To huff | Slang in 1811 | TO HUFF. To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted bully. To stand the huff; to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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