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Meaning Of Huff

  1. v. t.
    To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
  2. v. t.
    To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
  3. v. t.
    To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
  4. v. i.
    To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
  5. v. i.
    To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
  6. v. i.
    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. n.
    A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
  8. n.
    A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.



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