huff

Meanings

1. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
2. A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
3. One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
4. The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

1. To breathe heavily.
2. To say in a huffy manner.
3. To enlarge; to swell up.
4. To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
5. To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
6. To vex; to offend.
7. To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
8. To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

1. A surname.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
4. An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
5. An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
6. An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
7. A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.

Etymology

Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).