huff
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /hʌf/
美 /hʌf/|/hɐf/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
— With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
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A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
— in a huff
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One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
— Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge [...] of wit.
- The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
动词 v.
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To breathe heavily.
— The run left him huffing and puffing.
- To say in a huffy manner.
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To enlarge; to swell up.
— Bread huffs.
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To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
— This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.
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To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
— […] I was ſent for by the marſhall, huffed and hectored ſtrangely, thretned, &c., in fine, muſte give bonds to the good behaviour; I refuſed, […]
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To vex; to offend.
— Signior Riccabocca had become very intimate, as we have seen, at the Parsonage. But not so at the Hall. For though the Squire was inclined to be very friendly to all his neighbours he was, like most country gentlemen, rather easily huffed.
- To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).
词源 2
Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).
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