huffinessn.
/ˈhʌfɪnɪs/ The quality of being huffy: †(a) boastfulness, blustering, arrogance (obsolete); (b) readiness to take offence or show oneself offended.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > touchiness > [noun]
touchiness1603
huffiness1678
sensibilities1767
sensitiveness1817
tactility1831
huffishness1841
miffiness1845
hoity-toityism1881
sensitivity1906
prickle1956
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [noun]
crabbingc1450
protervitya1527
peevishness1561
pettishness1603
fretfulness1615
huffiness1678
froppishness1688
petulancy1712
fractiousness1727
crossness1740
petulance1785
bile1836
huffishness1841
biliousness1856
pettedness1860
strop1970
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1678 H. More in Glanvill's Sadducismus (1727) 463 Their understandings being but creatural huffiness of mind.
1695 J. Sage Cyprianic Age (1847) II. 76 A reconciliation between..huffyness and humility.
1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) II. iv. xi. 81 That degree of polite culture which gives dignity and cures huffiness.
1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxvii. 230 He is an amiable youth, but has some..brusquerie of manner and huffiness.
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