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Definition of Huffed
1. huff [v] - See also: huff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huffed
Literary usage of Huffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1904)
"Act i: a melody and a 'motive.' Musical Murrays.— Abortive scheme for concerts
in Belgium and Holland; Weimar a little huffed.—A twofold liberation. ..."
2. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"... between which and the fide of the cylinder a quantity of junk or oakum is
huffed, and kept down by weights, to prevent the entrance of air or water, ..."
3. Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: During the Last Twenty Years by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786)
"... if he ever huffed .his wife about his dinner ? " So often (replied he), that
at laft fhe called to me, and faid, Nay, ..."
4. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little Pig-
The second little pig met a man with a bundle of furze and said: "Please, ..."
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