huffish
Americanadjective
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peevish; irritable.
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swaggering; insolent; bullying.
Other Word Forms
- huffishly adverb
- huffishness noun
Etymology
Origin of huffish
Example Sentences
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They are so, Harry, for when I spoke to my wife first, she was so very coy and huffish, and told me she did not know what I meant.
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"Well, but you don't expect us to go about arresting people on intuition, do you?" asked the officer, huffishly.
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Sir Ronald had promised to be content without love; but he was not, and was huffish and offended, and savagely jealous of Reginald Stanford and all the hated past.
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"Oh! you always tell me when it's too late," he retorted, huffishly.
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