Huffy \Huff"y\, a.
1. Puffed up; as, huffy bread.
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2. Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
huffy
adj 1: quick to take offense [syn: thin-skinned, touchy]
2: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain;
"she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his
friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: mad, sore]
WordNet (r) 2.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "huffy":
aggravated, annoyed, arrogant, bearish, bitchy, cankered,
cantankerous, cavalier, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross,
cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, disdainful,
exasperated, excitable, feisty, fractious, haughty,
high-and-mighty, huffish, insolent, irascible, irritable,
irritated, mean, miffed, nettled, ornery, overbearing, peeved,
perverse, piqued, provoked, put-out, snappish, spiteful, spleeny,
splenetic, supercilious, superior, testy, ugly, vexed, waspish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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