huff🔊

A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

An condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

(obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.

(draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

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.

(archaic) To vex; to offend.

To inhale psychoactive inhalants.

(draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).