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How to pronounce “huff”
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Pronunciation guide for huff
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of huff with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Motown the Musical
Alvin Huff, Jr. Alvin over there on the keys.
- Definition summary
- A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce huff
Motown the Musical
Alvin Huff, Jr. Alvin over there on the keys.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “huff”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
- (figurative) A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
- (obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
- (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
- (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense. [from the 16th c.]
- (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- (transitive, archaic) To vex; to offend.
- (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants. [from the 20th c.]
- (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
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