huff

  • (noun): A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
  • (noun): An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
  • (noun): One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
  • (verb): To breathe heavily.
  • (verb): To say in a huffy manner.
  • (verb): To enlarge; to swell up.
  • (verb): To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
  • (verb): To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
  • (verb): To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
  • (verb): (draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
  • With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
  • The run left him huffing and puffing.
  • Bread huffs.