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[huhf-ee] / ˈhʌf i /


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They could also vote on huffy resolutions declaring their distaste for Boasberg et al.

From Slate Mar. 22, 2025

However, five weeks later she developed "huffy" breathing and in the days following was diagnosed with GBS after deteriorating in hospital.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2024

During the course of the TV show “Frasier,” its main character was described as pompous, loquacious, overanalytical, pushy, pretentious, bossy, huffy, vain … and those are just the words used by his loved ones.

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2023

Whenever it was on, I became huffy, knitting my brows and aggressively scrolling through my camera roll or Twitter in silent protest.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2023

“I don’t know why you’re so huffy these days. You used to be fun to hang around.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

So things ran along, and I got huffier and huffier.

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer

She wur white as the bleached skull o’ a huffier; an sesh har!

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

Gerald Feinberg, the Columbia University physi-No, the huffiest of all it-couldn't-be-done claims cist, once went so far as to declare that "everything centered on the notion that human beings could possible will eventually be accomplished."

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