Usually means: Expressing annoyance in a breath.
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  3. huff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. huff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  13. huff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. huff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Huff (TV series), Huff (board games), Huff (surname), Huff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Huff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. huff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. huff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. huff: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Huff (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. huff, huff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. huff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Huff: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
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noun:  A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
noun:  An condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
noun:  (draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
verb:  (intransitive) To breathe heavily.
verb:  (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
verb:  (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To vex; to offend.
verb:  (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
verb:  (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
noun:  A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.

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