huff
/hʌf/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.12 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck."
- "in a huff"
- "Such wickedness had never come into his head; but he had a certain pleasure in being the confidential friend of a very pretty woman; and when he heard that that pretty woman's husband was jealous, the pleasure was enhanced rather than otherwise. On that Sunday, as he had left the house in Curzon Street, he had told Stanbury that Trevelyan [the husband] had just gone off in a huff, which was true enough, and he had walked from thence down Clarges Street, and across Piccadilly to St. James's Street, with a jauntier step than usual, because he was aware that he himself had been the occasion of that trouble."
- "Tom Bower’s 2024 book, The House of Beckham, painted a rather snide portrait of the marriage, in which Beckham is constantly surrounded by lovelies, and Victoria is in a constant huff about it."
- "Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge [...] of wit."
- "The run left him huffing and puffing."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hʌf/
- British English: /hʌf/