huffed

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To breathe heavily.
   • The run left him huffing and puffing.
2. (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
3. (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
   • Bread huffs.
4. (intransitive) 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.1691, Robert South, On the nature and measure of conscience
5. (transitive) 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, […]1684 February 4, William Vaughan, “[Appendix.] XXXI. A Letter from William Vaughan, Esq. Containing a Journal of Transactions during His Imprisonment, &c. to Nathaniel Weare, Esq. Agent in London.”...
6. (archaic, transitive) 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.1851, Varieties in English Life, page 42

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