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miffing

miffing is the present participle and gerund of miff.

Meaning of miff

Verb

miff (third-person singular simple present miffs, present participle miffing, simple past and past participle miffed)

  1. (transitive, usually) To offend slightly.
    • he [our Interpreter Shabonah] will not agree to work let our Situation be what it may nor Stand a guard, and if miffed with any man he wishes to return when he pleases1805 March 12, Bernard DeVoto, editor, The journals of Lewis and Clark, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1953, Clark's journal, page 85
  2. (intransitive) To become slightly offended.
    • I amble on; yet, though I know not why, / So sad I am!—but should a friend and I / Grow cool and miff, O! I am very sad!c. 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To Simplicity”, in Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers

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Questions about miffing

What is miffing the present participle and gerund of?
Miffing is the present participle and gerund of miff.

Words near miffing in the dictionary

  1. miffed
  2. miffier
  3. miffiest
  4. miffily
  5. miffiness
  6. miffing
  7. Mifflin
  8. Mifflin County
  9. Mifflins
  10. Mifflintown
  11. miffs

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