Huff vs Whisper - What's the difference?
huff | whisper |
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
The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.
* 1883 , :
(usually in plural) A rumor.
(figurative) A faint trace or hint (of something).
(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.
* 2002 , Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars (page 218)
* 2004 , Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education (page 179)
To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
* Bentley
To make a low, sibilant sound.
* Thomson
To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
* Bible, Psalms xli. 7
(obsolete) To address in a whisper, or low voice.
* Shakespeare
* Keble
(obsolete) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun huff
is .As a noun whisper is
the act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.As a verb whisper is
to speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.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.
whisper
English
Noun
(Whispering) (en noun)- "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper , that was no more than audible.
- There are whispers of rebellion all around.
- The soup had just a whisper of basil.
- The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction
- Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.
Derived terms
* stage whisper * whisper campaignVerb
(en verb)- They might buzz and whisper it one to another.
- the hollow, whispering breeze
- All that hate me whisper together against me.
- and whisper one another in the ear
- where gentlest breezes whisper souls distressed
- He came to whisper Wolsey.