The Meaning of huff

• (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
• (v. t.) To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
• (v. t.) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
• (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
• (v. i.) To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
• (v. i.) 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.
• (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
• (n.) A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.

Synonyms

miff , seeing red , snort , puff , chuff

Homophones

hough

Rhymes

acuff , bluff , bruff , buff , chuff , cluff , cuff , cuffe , duff , dyestuff , earmuff , enough , fisticuff , fluff , foodstuff , gruff , guff , handcuff , hough , leboeuf , lebouef , luff , macduff , mcduff , mcgeough , mcgough , muff , overstuff , pluff , puff , rebuff , rough , ruf , ruff , schuff , scottsbluff , scruff , scuff , shuff , slough , sluff , snuff , stough , stuff , tough , tuff