单词	huff
释义	huff1 verbhuff2 noun huffhuff1 /hʌf/ verb informal Word Origin WORD ORIGINhuff1 Origin: 1500-1600 From the sound Verb Table VERB TABLE huff Simple Form Present I, you, we, they huff he, she, it huffs Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they huffed Present perfect I, you, we, they have huffed he, she, it has huffed Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had huffed Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will huff Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have huffed Continuous Form Present I am huffing he, she, it is huffing you, we, they are huffing Past I, he, she, it was huffing you, we, they were huffing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been huffing he, she, it has been huffing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been huffing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be huffing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been huffing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES "That was unbelievably irresponsible," huffed one teacher. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidence stacked up against him. Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down. Marvin huffed off to compose his cable. Now there's to be a schools painting competition about the bulldozers that can huff and puff and pull the house down. The butler inserted a hooked finger into his collar, grimaced and huffed. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► huff and puff A couple of pudgy joggers were huffing and puffing along the path. After all their huffing and puffing, every incumbent was desperate to claim some achievement. Before long he was huffing and puffing, his dark neck thrust out at a sharp angle. Brian, furious, would huff and puff as Mazzin unceremoniously threw him back down on his bed. But however the warning was given, the board, huff and puff as it might, will have to pay attention. He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidence stacked up against him. He ascends, huffing and puffing, stopping at each landing. It was a huffing and puffing. Now there's to be a schools painting competition about the bulldozers that can huff and puff and pull the house down. 1huff and puff a)to breathe out in a noisy way, especially when you do something that involves a lot of physical effort:  He was huffing and puffing by the time he got to the top. b)to show clearly that you strongly disagree with or are annoyed about something:  After a lot of huffing and puffing, he eventually gave in to our request.2[transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are annoyed, often because someone has offended you:  ‘I haven’t got time for that now,’ huffed Sam irritably. huff1 verbhuff2 noun huffhuff2 noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Aunt Glegg leaves in an insulted huff, saying she will call in the five hundred pounds she loaned to Tulliver. Did Parks stomp off in a huff like some injured prima donna, some egomaniac? He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary. He was in a little huff. He was still in a huff that she was planning to take Petey along to the meeting that night. It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose. Owen went off in a huff and read the papers. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorangry for a short time► be in a bad mood · I had to wait two hours for the train, which really put me in a bad mood.· Why were you in such a bad mood this morning?be in a foul mood (=be in a very bad mood) · Darnell came home from work in a foul mood. ► be in a huff if someone is in a huff they are feeling bad-tempered, especially because someone has just offended, upset, or annoyed them: · Kate is in a huff right now because we wouldn't let her go to the beach with her friends.go off/leave in a huff (=go away in a huff): · Dad started to give the waiter a hard time and Mom got up and left the table in a huff. ► be in one of his/her moods if someone is in one of his or her moods they are bad-tempered at the moment and you know that they often get bad-tempered for no good reason: · It's no use trying to reason with Karen right now; she's in one of her moods.· When Kurt was in one of his moods, he took it out on everyone around him. ► get up on the wrong side of the bed also get out of bed on the wrong side British spoken you say someone has got out of bed on the wrong side when you think they have been behaving in a bad-tempered way all day: · "What's Sarah's problem?" "I don't know. She must have got up on the wrong side of the bed." Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff  She stormed out in a huff. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► go · It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose.· Owen went off in a huff and read the papers. ► leave · Aunt Glegg leaves in an insulted huff, saying she will call in the five hundred pounds she loaned to Tulliver. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► in a huff Michelle got mad and left in a huff. Did Parks stomp off in a huff like some injured prima donna, some egomaniac? He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary. He was still in a huff that she was planning to take Petey along to the meeting that night. I felt I ought to have gone in earlier; that now I had put him in a huff. McCloskey, in a huff, went to the University of Iowa. Owen went off in a huff and read the papers. in a huff feeling angry or bad-tempered, especially because someone has offended yougo off/walk off/leave etc in a huff She stormed out in a huff.
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