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Huffiness

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Noun

1. huffiness

a passing state of anger and resentment

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Huffiness

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noun
1. 
a passing mood of anger or pique (esp in the phrase in a huff)
verb
2. 
to make or become angry or resentful
3. (intransitive)
to blow or puff heavily
4. Also: blow draughts
to remove (an opponent's draught) from the board for failure to make a capture
5. (transitive) obsolete
to bully
6.  huffing and puffing

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Huffiness

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verb transitive
1.  Obsolete
to blow, swell, or puff up
2. 
to treat insolently; bully; hector
3. 
to make angry; offend
verb intransitive
4. 
to blow; puff
5. 
to become angry; take offense
6.  Obsolete
to swell with pride or arrogance
noun
7. 
a condition of smoldering anger or resentment

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Huffiness

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adj. huff·i·er, huff·i·est
1. Easily offended; touchy.
2. Irritated or annoyed; indignant.
3. Arrogant; haughty.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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