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huffy
CIDE DICTIONARY
huffy, a.
- 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.
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, waspishROGET 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.For further exploring for "huffy" in Webster Dictionary Online