He looked like such a fool, pointing and gesturing and huffing and puffing.
Various Thoughts: Demography, Rove, Morris, the Great Nate, &c.|Michael Tomasky|November 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
One wonders whether the government is huffing and puffing to cover up its own incompetence.
Blame the Defense Department for WikiLeaks|James C. Goodale|March 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But even if your older gentleman is still breathing, he may not be huffing along vigorously enough to keep you young.
Why Do Cougars Die Young?|Hannah Seligson|May 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He who will establish this proposition by authority and huffing discovers his reason to be very weak.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete|Michel de Montaigne
Huffing and snubbing, prey upon my feelings; but I can bear them without complaint.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.--April, 1851--Vol. II.|Various
There is in "Titus" none of Kyd's "huffing, bragging, puft" language.
The Critics Versus Shakspere|Francis A. Smith
Yes, sir: he scorned all Famagosta when he was in his huffing, and now he lies puffing for wind, they say they scorn him.
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.|Thomas Dekker
I have so lost them when I was half fit to keep them: they are sooner prevailed upon by courtesy than huffing.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete|Michel de Montaigne
huffing
/ (ˈhʌfɪŋ) /
noun
slangthe practice of inhaling toxic fumes from glue and other household products for their intoxicating effects