huff
/hʌf/ · noun
Meaning
- A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
- An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
- One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
- To breathe heavily.
- To say in a huffy manner.
- To enlarge; to swell up.
- To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
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