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huff

noun as in bad mood

verb as in sigh, breathe out forcefully

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Woo huffs and jumps off the table, quickly returning to the plantains in his bowl.

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Then his rolling gait retreated into the fog as the great red Bloomer engine huffed into the station, billowing steam.

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Indeed, she had huffed and puffed her way to the end of the hall at a full trot before Penelope even had a chance to catch her eye and offer a look of sympathy.

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"They huffed and puffed in the second half. It was improved, but not good enough."

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Meanwhile, Johnson’s Kerr huffs up a set of stairs in a training montage that already belongs to “Rocky.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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