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huff-snuffs

huff-snuffs is the plural of huff-snuff.

Meaning of huff-snuff

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

Questions about huff-snuffs

What is huff-snuffs the plural of?
Huff-snuffs is the plural of huff-snuff.

Words near huff-snuffs in the dictionary

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

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