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huff-snuff

huff-snuff noun: a swaggering or blustering bully; a braggart or swashbuckler.

Noun

huff-snuff (plural huff-snuffs)

  1. (dated) A swaggering or blustering bully; a braggart or swashbuckler.
    • “Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 123

Forms of huff-snuff

pluralhuff-snuffs

Questions about huff-snuff

What does huff-snuff mean?
Huff-snuff means a swaggering or blustering bully; a braggart or swashbuckler.
What part of speech is huff-snuff?
Huff-snuff is a noun.
What is the plural of huff-snuff?
The plural of huff-snuff is huff-snuffs.

Words near huff-snuff in the dictionary

  1. huff and puff
  2. huff off
  3. huff paste
  4. huff-cap
  5. huff-caps
  6. huff-snuff
  7. huff-snuffs
  8. Huffaker
  9. Huffakers
  10. huffaz
  11. huffcap

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