meaning of huff
1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
3. To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i. , 3.
4. To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
5. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
6. 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.
7. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
8. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
9. huff To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called "HUFF" or some variant thereof. Opposite: puff. Compare crunch, compress. [Jargon File]
10. a state of irritation or annoyance
Related Words
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