Guffed vs Huffed - What's the difference?
guffed | huffed |
(guff)
(informal) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 (informal) Superfluous information.
(informal) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
(slang) To break wind.
(slang) To mislead.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 14:
(huff)
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
As verbs the difference between guffed and huffed
is that guffed is (guff) while huffed is (huff).guffed
English
Verb
(head)guff
English
Noun
(-)citation, passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.
Synonyms
* (nonsensical talk or thinking) balls, bull, bulldust, bullshit, crap, nonsense, rubbish, tripe * (insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks) brass neck, cheek, impudence, insolence, lipVerb
(en verb)- "Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?"
- "That's close enough," Wolfe said.
- "Not close enough for me. If you expect me to"
Synonyms
* (break wind) See also * (mislead) To bullshithuffed
English
Verb
(head)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.