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huffy, a.|ˈhʌfɪ|
[f. huff n. + -y.]
†1. Windy, effervescent, puffy. Obs. or dial.
1765Brownrigg in Phil. Trans. LV. 227 Like the air of beer, cyder, champaign, and other huffy liquors. 1890Gloucester Gloss., Huffy, puffy, not firm.
†2. fig. Airy, unsubstantial. Obs.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. § 44. 53 The way of physiologizing by matter, forms, and qualities, is a more huffie and phanciful thing. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. Pref. 74 This Spirit of Charity being an huffy blast of crude Enthusiasm.
†3. Puffed up with pride, conceit, or self-esteem; haughty; blustering. Obs.
1677Govt. Venice 259 Those..who before the danger are most huffy and high, as were the Venetians. 1678Earl Murray in Lauderdale Papers (Camden) III. lxxxvii. 151 Lord Cochrane and his brother Sr Johne talked mor huffey then the rest. 1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks 107 Whether the Church of Rome has reason to be so huffy and proud of her Pilgrims and Hospitals.
4.
†a. Arrogant, choleric.
b. Ready to take ‘huff’ or offence; touchy, pettish.
1680Bunyan Life Badman (ed. Virtue) 524 His natural temper was to be surly, huffy, and rugged, and worse. 1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 35 There is no necessity to appear huffy and out of humour. 1803J. Porter Thaddeus xv. (1831) 133 It does not become a person in your situation to be so huffy. 1890Jessopp Trials Country Parson ii. 79 He is apt to be stuck up, and she is very apt to be huffy. |