HUFF
\hˈʌf], \hˈʌf], \h_ˈʌ_f]\
Definitions of HUFF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
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To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
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To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
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To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
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A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
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To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
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To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
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To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
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A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Sudden anger or arrogance: a fit of disappointment or anger: a boaster.
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To swell: to bully: to remove a “man†from the board for not capturing pieces open to him, as in draughts.
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To swell: to bluster.
By Daniel Lyons
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To swell: to bluster.
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A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of peevishness due to some slight; a boaster.
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To swell; to puff up; to bully; to remove an adversary's piece from the board in draughts when he refuses to take one in his power.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Sudden offence taken; a swell of sudden anger; a boaster.
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To offend; to swell or enlarge; to bluster.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
