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Meaning of HUFFY

Pronunciation:  'hufee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  (informal) roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
  2. [adj]  quick to take offense
 
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 Synonyms: angry, mad, sensitive, sore, thin-skinned, touchy
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Huff"y\, a.
1. Puffed up; as, huffy bread.
2. Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
 
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 Related Terms: 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
 

 

 

 

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