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huffle, v. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈhʌf(ə)l|
[dim. and freq. of huff v.: see -le.]
1. a. trans. To blow; to fan (a fire); to inflate.
1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 39 Whereby hee..with gyfts might carrye the Princesse Too braynesick loouefits, to her boans fire smouldered huffling. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 39 Jerkin Beef, which is hufled, and slashed through, hung up and dryed in the Sun.
†b. To raise in relief, emboss. Obs.
1638Patent No. 118. 17 July, Ymbroidering or hufling of guilded leather..fitt for hangings.
c. Of the wind: to make a sound as of blowing in gusts. So ˈhuffle n., a sudden gust of wind, or the sound made by this.
1862W. Barnes Poems Rural Life 3rd Coll. 122 Where sharp-leav'd ashès' heads did twist In hufflèn wind, an' driftèn mist. 1878Hardy Ret. Native I. i. iii. 70 The winds do huffle queerer to-night than ever I heard 'em afore. 1889S. Baring-Gould et al. Songs of West 9 At the huffle of the gale, Here I toss and cannot sleep. 1891‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin III. vi. ii. 82 A huffle of wind, hot with the festering reek of the streets away across the river, fluttered the leaves... The wind huffled again.
†2.
a. trans. To puff up, inflate, or elevate with pride.
b. intr. To puff, bluster. Obs.
a1652Brome Damoiselle iii. ii. Wks. 1873 I. 426 Let not your fine French Frippery..Huffle you up to Soveraignty. 1673Duke of Lauderdale in L. Papers (Camden) III. xii. 14 Another who is about you who yow know hath long huffled at me. Ibid. 17 But now he is huffled up that he must appeare a considerable man.
Hence ˈhuffling vbl. n. and ppl. a., blowing, blustering, swelling.
1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 19 Auctoritye..Too swage seas surging, or raise by blusterus huffling. Ibid. iii. 93 Scaped from rough tempestuus huffling. a1657Lovelace Poems (1864) 225 When to our huffling Henry there complain'd A grieved earl. 1689State Europe in Harl. Misc. I. 200 Her huffling and prosperous condition may be rendered languishing enough. 1847C. A. Johns Forest Trees Gt. Brit. I. 357 The huffling winds which we often experience in summer. |