Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being huffy; petulance; ill humor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.
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- noun The property of being
huffy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a passing state of anger and resentment
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Examples
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This kind of huffiness is just blood in the water for the Republicans, and "compromise" to them is a synonym for "sucker."
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David's word; but David knew how to check that "huffiness"!
The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901
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This is turning out to be a great summer for lovers of cliches: France's football team is behaving with the kind of deliciously Gallic huffiness last seen from Pepe le Pew after being rejected by a suitor.
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That's the real reason for the huffiness: Franken and his staff obviously don't know how Washington works yet -- you're supposed watch silently and courteously as special interests gut the urgently-needed provisions you've won for the American people.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Frank and Franken: The Gentleman From Massachusetts Wins One for Wall Street 2010
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Like many of these things they run out of steam, expectations vary wildly, tempers fray and the whole thing implodes in a flurry of huffiness ... or was it a fluffy of hurriness.
Dorothy Dunnett 2007
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Roger, so very clever to say "before you get huffy," precluding huffiness at the part likely to cause it: "books eligible to receive them become subconsciously marked-down by the Newbery and Caldecott judges because they can win 'something else.'"
Picking a (Prize) Fight Roger Sutton 2007
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And let me interrupt myself to say here, I have *seen* some sarcasm and huffiness, and I have even dished some out, and in the grand scheme of things, the replies were perhaps a 3.5 or 4 on a 1-10 snark scale – right up until “lil miss kitty,” at which point it jumped to about a 6.5.
doc.. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Actually, I was rather rude with my huffiness and ordering her to the back of the line.
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Like many of these things they run out of steam, expectations vary wildly, tempers fray and the whole thing implodes in a flurry of huffiness ... or was it a fluffy of hurriness.
Dorothy Dunnett 2007
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She's been a political animal all her life, meaning she is not going to have any public huffiness or outbursts of "pride".
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