Huff v. t. (past & past part. huffed; pres. part. huffing)
1.
To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
2.
To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. "You must not presume to huff us."
3.
(Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
Huff v. i.
1.
To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
2.
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense. "This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance."
3.
(Draughts) 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.
... keeps to his old and wonted method of prefacing; when at the beginning of his book he enters, either with a halter round his neck, submitting himself to his readers' mercy whether he shall be hanged or no, or else, in a huffing manner, he appears with the halter in his hand, and threatens to hang his reader, if he gives him not his good word. This, with the excitement of friends to his undertaking, and some few apologies for the want of time, books, and the like, are the constant and usual shams of all scribblers, ... — Spare Hours • John Brown
... he puffed and he huffed, And he puffed and he huffed and he puffed, But with all his huffing, And all his puffing, The ... — On the Tree Top • Clara Doty Bates
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