Hull vs Huff - What's the difference?
hull | huff |
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
The body or frame of a vessel such as a ship or plane
* Dryden
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled
*, II.1:
*:We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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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 verb hull
is .As a proper noun huff is
.hull
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Synonyms
* (outer covering of fruit or seed ): husk, shellDerived terms
* ahull * monohull * multihull * twinhull * tank hull * hull-downVerb
(en verb)- She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Synonyms
* (to remove hull of a fruit or seed ): peel, husk, shell, shuckEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light.
Verb
(en verb)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.