Synonyms of the word huff


HUFFANNOYANCE - BLOW - BOTHERATION - CHUFF - INHALE - INSPIRE - IRRITATION - MIFF - PUFF - SNORT - VEXATION

huff

  • n. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
  • n. An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
  • n. (obsolete) A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance.
  • v. To breathe heavily.
  • v. To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
  • v. To say in a huffy manner.
  • v. (draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled…
  • v. To enlarge; to swell up.
  • v. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
  • v. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke rudely; to hector; to bully.

annoyance

  • n. (countable) That which annoys.
  • n. (countable) An act or instance of annoying.
  • n. (uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

blow

  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
  • v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
  • v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
  • v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
  • v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
  • v. (intransitive) To explode.
  • v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
  • v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
  • v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
  • v. (transitive) To leave.
  • v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
  • v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  • v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  • v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
  • v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
  • v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
  • n. A strong wind.
  • n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
  • n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
  • n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
  • n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
  • n. The act of striking or hitting.
  • n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  • n. A damaging occurrence.
  • v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
  • n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  • n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  • n. A bloom, state of flowering.

botheration

  • n. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
  • interj. An expression of annoyance.

chuff

  • adj. (Britain) Surly.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect) stupid; churlish.
  • n. A coarse or stupid fellow.
  • v. (intransitive) To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
  • v. (Britain, informal) To break wind.
  • v. To intermittantly extinguish and reignite a powder charge.
  • n. (scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development,…
  • n. A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
  • adj. (Britain) Pleased.
  • adj. (obsolete) Swollen with fat.
  • adj. (vulgar slang, of cheeks) Swollen.
  • n. (vulgar slang) The vagina.
  • n. (vulgar slang) Anus.

inhale

  • v. (intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
  • v. (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form…
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To eat very quickly.

inspire

  • v. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural…
  • v. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what…
  • v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
  • v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
  • v. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

irritation

  • n. The act of irritating or annoying.
  • n. The state of being irritated.
  • n. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition…
  • n. A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which…

miff

  • n. A small argument, quarrel.
  • n. A state of being offended.
  • v. (transitive, usually used in the passive) to offend slightly.
  • v. (intransitive) to become slightly offended.

puff

  • n. (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
  • n. (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
  • n. (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
  • n. (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
  • n. (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.
  • n. (dated, slang) A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up…
  • n. A puffball.
  • n. A powder puff.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
  • n. (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
  • n. (derogatory, slang, Britain, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof.
  • n. (slang, dated, Britain) Life.
  • v. (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
  • v. (intransitive) To pant.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To advertise.
  • v. To blow as an expression of scorn.
  • v. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
  • v. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
  • v. To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
  • v. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
  • v. To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
  • v. To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
  • v. To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

snort

  • n. The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
  • n. (slang) A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). A snort…
  • n. (slang) A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.

vexation

  • n. The act of annoying, vexing, or irritating.
  • n. The state of being vexed or irritated.

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