huffer
UK/ˈhʌfə/US/ˈhʌfɚ/
huffer noun: a drug addict who gets a high by inhaling or sniffing (huffing) intoxicating fumes, as in glue or aerosols.
Noun
huffer (plural huffers)
- A drug addict who gets a high by inhaling or sniffing (huffing) intoxicating fumes, as in glue or aerosols.
- One who huffs.
- “Taxi,” I yelled, “taxi,” racing across the street and grazing the bumper of a delivery van that veered and stopped short, the driver cursing me with proletarian gusto. I reached the door about half an arm’s length ahead of a grey-haired gentleman who huffed, “It’s mine, it’s mine,” and I dropped...1993, António Lobo Antunes, translated by Richard Zenith, “Morning”, in Act of the Damned, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published September 1995, →ISBN, “Two Days Before the...
- “I don’t want paperback.” / Of course she didn’t. “Well, you can borrow an electronic version. The library—” / “Eh, that’s not reading.” She huffed again. She was a major huffer. “Kids today, reading on their phones. That’s not real reading.”2021 May 4, Ellis Leigh, “Brittani”, in Bibliophile and the Beast (Books & Baes; 1), Kinship Press, →ISBN
- A bully; a blusterer.
- To be expos'd in th'end to ſuffer / By ſuch a Braggadochio Huffer.1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 205
Proper noun capitalized: Huffer
Huffer (plural Huffers)
- A surname.
Synonyms of huffer
Forms of huffer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | huffers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Huffers |
Origin of huffer
From huff + -er.
Words that rhyme with huffer
Questions about huffer
- What does huffer mean?
- Huffer means a drug addict who gets a high by inhaling or sniffing (huffing) intoxicating fumes, as in glue or aerosols.
- What part of speech is huffer?
- Huffer can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce huffer?
- Huffer is pronounced /ˈhʌfə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of huffer?
- The plural of huffer is huffers.
Words near huffer in the dictionary
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