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huffish, a.|ˈhʌfɪʃ|
[f. huff n. + -ish.]
a. Arrogant, insolent.
b. Petulant.
1755Johnson, Huffish, arrogant, insolent, hectoring. 1796M. Robinson Angelina II. 61 If any body has a right to be huffish, 't is I. 1848Dickens Dombey 430 To return..a huffish answer. 1885Punch 13 June, It's no use to turn huffish or moody.
Hence ˈhuffishly adv., ˈhuffishness.
1755Johnson, Huffishly, with arrogant petulance; with bullying bluster. Huffishness, petulance; arrogance; noisy bluster. 1825Moore Mem. 26 Oct. (1853) IV. 329 ‘Is she indeed?’ answered Piozzi huffishly, ‘then pray tell her I can be as indifferent as she’, and walked away. 1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 275 The heady huffishness and shifting desperation of foiled ecclesiastics. |