Crossword-Solution: HUFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Huff | v. t. | To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. |
| Huff | v. t. | To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. |
| Huff | v. t. | To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3. |
| Huff | v. i. | To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs. |
| Huff | v. i. | To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense. |
| Huff | 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. |
| Huff | n. | A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. |
| Huff | n. | A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HUFF (5)
That’s good enough for little rubbishy common things—specially with gals, cuz _they_ go back on you anyway, and blab if they get in a huff—but there orter be writing ’bout a big thing like this.
Something in Gordon’s air and figure, as he went off in a huff, looking vicious and dangerous--yes, that was positively his look--left a sinister impression on Bernard’s mind, and, after a while, made him glad to take refuge in being angry.
Expect another job this time next year, For pity and religion grow i’ the crowd-- Your painting serves its purpose!” Hang the fools! --That is--you’ll not mistake an idle word Spoke in a huff by a poor monk, Got wot, Tasting the air this spicy night which turns The unaccustomed head like Chianti wine! Oh, the church knows! don’t misreport me, now! {340} It’s natural a poor monk out of bounds Should have his apt word to excuse himself: And hearken how I plot to make amends.
The chap would not sell it to un; Lord Screw wanted to beat him down, and the chap took huff, said he wouldn't sell it to him at no price, and accepted the offer of the foreigneering man, or of Jack, who was his 'terpreter, and who scorned to higgle about such a hanimal, because Jack is a gentleman, though bred a dickey-boy, whilst t'other, though bred a lord, is a screw and a whitefeather.
The ambassador who accompanied us on our return to Butaritari found him retired to a small island on the reef, in a huff with the Old Men, a tiff with the traders, and more fear of insurrection at home than appetite for wars abroad.
Quotes with HUFF (3)
No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.
(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?
His heart cracked, and he fell in love. He wondered if she would marry him. “Tu sei pazzo,” she told him with a pleasant laugh. “Why am I crazy?” he asked. “Perché non posso sposare.” “Why can’t you get married?” “Because I am not a virgin,” she answered. “What has that got to do with it?” “Who will marry me? No one wants a girl who is not a virgin.” “I will. I’ll marry you.” “Ma non posso sposarti.” “Why can’t you marry me?” “Perché sei pazzo.” “Why am I crazy?” “Perché vuoi…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 49 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).