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Uffish vs Huffish - What's the difference?

uffish | huffish |

As adjectives the difference between uffish and huffish

is that uffish is (nonce) grumpy, ill-tempered while huffish is disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

uffish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (nonce) grumpy, ill-tempered
  • * 1872 , Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky'' (poem in ''Through the Looking-Glass )
    • And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!
  • * 1874 , Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark
    • The Bellman looked uffish , and wrinkled his brow.
  • * 1956 , Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal (volumes 52-53)
    • Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish .

    huffish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

    • Derived terms

    * huffishly * huffishness (Webster 1913)