Hoff vs Huff - What's the difference?
hoff | 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 a preposition hoff
is .As a proper noun huff is
.hoff
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Usage notes
* Generally styled as "the Hoff".Quotations
* "'America's Got Talent' recap: 'Hoff the charts!'" (Entertainment Weekly) * "Actor David Hasselhoff, the "America's Got Talent" judge known for his playfully Hoff -ful puns, has listed his longtime family home in Encino at $4,195,000." (
The Los Angeles Times) * "Hoff the Wall" (
The Sun) * "America's Got Talent: Five Finalists and a Singing Hoff in the House" (
E! Online) * "Hoff praises Holly's topless show" (
The Press Association) ----
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.