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▪ I. huffing, vbl. n.|ˈhʌfɪŋ|
[f. huff v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb huff.
†1. Inflating with wind; swelling. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 85 And winds vaunce fully thy sayls with prosperus huffing. 1608Heywood Rape Lucr. Wks. 1874 V. 200 The seas have left their rowling, The waves their huffing, the winds their puffing.
2. Blustering, hectoring, bullying.
1600Dekker Fortunatus Wks. 1873 I. 124 He scornd all Famagosta when he was in his huffing. 1672Wycherley Love in Wood ii. i, Coyness in a woman is as little sign of true modesty as huffing in a man is of true courage. 1729Gay Polly i. xii, When kings by their huffing Have blown up a squabble. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 468 All his huffings and cuffings from master and mistress.
3. Draughts. See huff v. 8.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iv, The huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop.
▸ Chiefly U.S. (orig. slang). The action or practice of deliberately inhaling the fumes from a volatile substance, an aerosol, etc., in order to become intoxicated. Cf. huff v. Additions.
1970Crime in Amer.: Youth Gang Warfare (U.S. House Select Comm. on Crime) 128 They are not to the glue huffing stage as yet, but in this area it usually starts by age 12. 1986M. N. Powers Ogala Women (1988) x. 176 In some cases young people sniff glue or paint solvent or gasoline, locally known as ‘huffing’. 2006Whittier (Calif.) Daily News (Nexis) 21 Mar. Parents, teachers, friends and counselors should be aware of the signs of inhalant abuse... Paint stains on their mouth, clothes and hands can be a sign of huffing.
▪ II. ˈhuffing, ppl. a.
[f. huff v. + -ing2.]
That huffs: in various senses of the vb.
†1. Blowing; puffing; inflating; swelling. Obs.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 109 Th' Ork, Whirl-poole Whale or huffing Physeter. 1614–15― Panaretus 708 If the puffing gales Into the Deep transport her huffing sails. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. Pref., High huffing-Shoulders here the Gallants weare. 1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy I. 96 Vertigals of whale-bone..bear out her coats in such a huffing manner, that she appears to be as broad as long. a1687Cotton Winter iii, æol's huffing brood. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. vi. 280 The huffing gusts of the coming tempest.
2. Puffed up, conceited, boastful; blustering, swaggering, hectoring, bullying.
1602How Man may Chuse gd. Wife iv. iii, A huffing wench..whose ruffling silks Make, with their motion, music unto love. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xiv. x. 22 The huffing puffes of stoutness and pride. 1735Pope Donne Sat. iv. 201 Huffing, braggart, puff'd Nobility. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 516 The..huffing, hectoring, basket-hilted adventurer. 1866Whipple Char. & Charac. Men 186 The bluff, huffing, swearing imperiousness of Thurlow. |