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US
/ˈhəfi/
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[ UK /hˈʌfi/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌfi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- quick to take offense
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roused to anger
mad at his friend
she gets mad when you wake her up so early
stayed huffy a good while
sore over a remark
How To Use huffy In A Sentence
- The studio rep I dealt with got kind of huffy at those renegades who didn't drink the Kool Aid. Archive 2007-11-01
- One of several reasons this makes me a bit huffy is that it's not at all evident (far from it!) that what an Evangelical such as Colson believes about justification, faith, and charity is what Luther believed. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
- There's a guilty pleasure in witnessing his obvious discomfort and huffy asides to the camera - ‘four hours’ he mutters darkly while getting fitted for a swish suit.
- I, in my turn, became embarrassed and huffy and told her to take the money back.
- ‘Don't get all huffy, puss,’ Louis said gently.
- Do you suppose it has ever occurred to any of these morons that I never intended to buy this POS company, and was only dangling big numbers out there so that I could bump up the price that Red Hat would have to pay when its hair-trigger CEO got all huffy and rushed in to "outbid" me? Archive 2006-12-01
- Lagerfeld was especially huffy, saying: ‘I think they should have taken a big name.’
- Something I wrote in huffy anger and probably would have thrown away myself, he kept because … he thought it was cute? Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
- Eh! they was set up about it, was t 'cows; I'd niver seen 'em so chuffy. Tales of the Ridings
- Don't go huffy when you're put on hold for the sixth time.