huff Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of irritation or annoyance
    seeing red; miff.
  2. verb inhale recreational drugs
    snort.
    • The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day
    • the kids were huffing glue
  3. verb blow hard and loudly
    puff; chuff.
    • he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain

WordNet

Huff transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. OE. hoove to puff up, blow; prob. of imitative origin.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Huffed ; present participle & verbal noun Huffing
Definitions
  1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew.
  2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
    You must not presume to huff us. Echard.
  3. (Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
Huff intransitive verb
Definitions
  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. South.
  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.
Huff noun
Definitions
  1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. "Left the place in a huff." W. Irving.
  2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
    Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South.
    Cowper.

Webster 1913