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take huff

take huff verb: to take offence.

Verb

take huff (third-person singular simple present takes huff, present participle taking huff, simple past took huff, past participle taken huff)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To take offence.
    • He is as proud as Lucifer , he is always taking huff about one thing or the other.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC

Forms of take huff

third-person singular presenttakes huff
present participletaking huff
pasttook huff
past participletaken huff

Questions about take huff

What does take huff mean?
Take huff means to take offence.
What part of speech is take huff?
Take huff is a verb.
What is the past tense of take huff?
The past tense of take huff is took huff.

Words near take huff in the dictionary

  1. take hold
  2. take holy orders
  3. take home
  4. take horse
  5. take hostage
  6. take huff
  7. take ill
  8. take in
  9. take in hand
  10. take in turn
  11. take in water

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