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huff and puff

huff and puff verb: to breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise.

Verb

huff and puff (third-person singular simple present huffs and puffs, present participle huffing and puffing, simple past and past participle huffed and puffed)

  1. To breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise.
    • They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat.August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk

Forms of huff and puff

third-person singular presenthuffs and puffs
present participlehuffing and puffing
past participlehuffed and puffed
pasthuffed and puffed

Words that rhyme with huff and puff

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Questions about huff and puff

What does huff and puff mean?
Huff and puff means to breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise.
What part of speech is huff and puff?
Huff and puff is a verb.
What is the past tense of huff and puff?
The past tense of huff and puff is huffed and puffed.

Words near huff and puff in the dictionary

  1. Huey, Dewey and Louie
  2. hueys
  3. Huezo
  4. Huezos
  5. huff
  6. huff and puff
  7. huff off
  8. huff paste
  9. huff-cap
  10. huff-caps
  11. huff-snuff

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