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huffiness|ˈhʌfɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being huffy: †a. Boastfulness, blustering, arrogance. b. Readiness to take offence or show oneself offended.
1678H. More in Glanvill's Sadducismus (1727) 463 Their understandings being but creatural huffiness of mind. 1695J. Sage Cyprianic Age (1847) II. 76 A reconciliation between..huffyness and humility. 1858Lytton What will he do? iv. xi, That degree of polite culture which gives dignity and cures huffiness. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Remin. II. xxvii. 230 He is an amiable youth, but has some..brusquerie of manner and huffiness. |