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huffiness | huffing | huffingly | huffish | huffishness | huffy | hug | hug drug | hug-me-tight | huge | hugely

huffy

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Adjective
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huff=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

huffya. 
  •  Puffed up; as, huffy bread.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

huffy, adj. (huffier, huffiest)
1 apt to take offence.
2 offended.

Derivative
huffily adv. huffiness n.

THESAURUS

huffy

aggravated, annoyed, arrogant, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, cavalier, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, disdainful, exasperated, excitable, feisty, fractious, haughty, high-and-mighty, huffish, insolent, irascible, irritable, irritated, mean, miffed, nettled, ornery, overbearing, peeved, perverse, piqued, provoked, put-out, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, supercilious, superior, testy, ugly, vexed, waspish

ROGET THESAURUS

huffy

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.


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