Huff vs Cough - What's the difference?

huff | cough |

As a proper noun huff

is .

As a verb cough is

to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

As a noun cough is

a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

huff

English

Noun

(en noun)

A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

With a huff , he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.

An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

Freyja left in a huff .

(obsolete) A boaster; one swelled with a false sense of value or importance.

Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge of wit. — South.

Verb

(en verb)

To breathe heavily.

The run left him huffing and puffing.

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.

Bread huffs .

To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.

* South

This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.

To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke rudely; to hector; to bully.

* Echard

You must not presume to huff us.

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cough

English

Verb

(en verb)

To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

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* , title=(Jeeves in the Offing)

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To make a noise like a cough.

Derived terms

* cougher * cough up

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough .

A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough .

He was – cough – indisposed.

Hyponyms

* barking cough * churchyard cough * congested cough * dry cough * hacking cough * loose cough * non-productive cough * productive cough * smoker's cough * wet cough

Derived terms

* cough mixture * cough syrup * whooping cough