Huff vs Angry - What's the difference?
huff | angry |
A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
(obsolete) A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance.
To breathe heavily.
To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
To say in a huffy manner.
(draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
To enlarge; to swell up.
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
* South
To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke rudely; to hector; to bully.
* Echard
Displaying or feeling anger.
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(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
Dark and stormy, menacing.
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As a noun huff
is a heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.As a verb huff
is to breathe heavily.As a proper noun Huff
is {{surname}.As an adjective angry is
displaying or feeling anger.huff
English
Noun
(en noun)- With a huff , he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
- Freyja left in a huff .
- Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge of wit. — South.
Verb
(en verb)- The run left him huffing and puffing.
- Bread huffs .
- This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.
- You must not presume to huff us.
angry
English
Adjective
(er)- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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