meaning of huffs

1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
2.
To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
3.
To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i. , 3.
4.
To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
5.
To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
6.
To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.
7.
A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
8.
A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
9.
huff To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called "HUFF" or some variant thereof. Opposite: puff. Compare crunch, compress. [Jargon File]
10.
a state of irritation or annoyance


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huff | huffcap | huffed | huffer | huffily | huffiness | huffing | huffingly | huffish | huffishness | huffman coding | huffy |

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