huffing

/ (ˈhʌfɪŋ) /

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noun

slang the practice of inhaling toxic fumes from glue and other household products for their intoxicating effects

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Derived forms of huffing

huffer, noun

Words nearby huffing

Huey, Hueytown, huff, huff and puff, Huff-Duff, huffing, huffish, huffy, Hufuf, hug, huge

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How to use huffing in a sentence

To fail to do so is regarded as extremely bad manners and can lead to much huffing and puffing.
Paris’s New Metro Etiquette Manual is a Rosetta Stone for Travelers|Christopher Dickey|December 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
“While were shooting we read a tabloid blog post that said Vanessa looked like a white-trash paint-huffing girl,” said Bivens.
The Secrets Behind the Bikinis of Harmony Korine’s New Film, ‘Spring Breakers’|Misty White Sidell|March 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He looked like such a fool, pointing and gesturing and huffing and puffing.
Various Thoughts: Demography, Rove, Morris, the Great Nate, &c.|Michael Tomasky|November 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
One wonders whether the government is huffing and puffing to cover up its own incompetence.
Blame the Defense Department for WikiLeaks|James C. Goodale|March 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Spain won, hallelujah, but not after much huffing and puffing to go alongside their geometric, incisive elegance on the ball.
Spain's Win: Cosmic Justice|Tunku Varadarajan|July 11, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He who will establish this proposition by authority and huffing discovers his reason to be very weak.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete|Michel de Montaigne
I have so lost them when I was half fit to keep them: they are sooner prevailed upon by courtesy than huffing.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete|Michel de Montaigne
After easing himself into a chair, and going through some prefatory huffing and puffing, Goode came out with it.
Murder in the Gunroom|Henry Beam Piper
It was one of the best jobs of well-verbalized huffing she'd heard, even from the professor.
Legacy|James H Schmitz
Yes, sir: he scorned all Famagosta when he was in his huffing, and now he lies puffing for wind, they say they scorn him.
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.|Thomas Dekker

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