From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhuffhuff1 /hʌf/ verb informal 1 → huff and puff2 [transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are annoyed, often because someone has offended you ‘I haven’t got time for that now, ’ huffed Sam irritably.→ See Verb table
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huff• The butler inserted a hooked finger into his collar, grimaced and huffed.• Now there's to be a schools painting competition about the bulldozers that can huff and puff and pull the house down.• Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down.• He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidence stacked up against him.• Marvin huffed off to compose his cable.• "That was unbelievably irresponsible, " huffed one teacher.huffhuff2 noun → in a huffExamples from the Corpus
huff• He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary.• Did Parks stomp off in a huff like some injured prima donna, some egomaniac?• Owen went off in a huff and read the papers.• He was still in a huff that she was planning to take Petey along to the meeting that night.• Aunt Glegg leaves in an insulted huff, saying she will call in the five hundred pounds she loaned to Tulliver.• He was in a little huff.• It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose.Origin huff1 (1500-1600) From the sound 