Huffy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Huffy \Huff"y\, a.
     1. Puffed up; as, huffy bread.
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     2. Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  huffy
       adj 1: quick to take offense [syn: {thin-skinned}, {touchy}]
       2: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain;
          "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his
          friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: {mad}, {sore}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "huffy":
     aggravated, annoyed, arrogant, bearish, bitchy, cankered,
     cantankerous, cavalier, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross,
     cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, disdainful,
     exasperated, excitable, feisty, fractious, haughty,
     high-and-mighty, huffish, insolent, irascible, irritable,
     irritated, mean, miffed, nettled, ornery, overbearing, peeved,
     perverse, piqued, provoked, put-out, snappish, spiteful, spleeny,
     splenetic, supercilious, superior, testy, ugly, vexed, waspish