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huffyhuff‧y /ˈhʌfi/ adjective informal - As you would imagine, he was rather huffy!
- He became huffy, then nervous.
- He could get quite huffy at all her complicated ways.
- I told them the Dispatch was doing a feature on the hanging debate; unfortunately that made them even more huffy.
- I was surprised by how huffy he was.
- The flouncy fish gets particularly huffy about serrated edges, which tear rather than slice through its delicate flesh.
- They couldn't answer and became huffy that we weren't satisfied with the good treatment we were receiving.
► get huffy Some customers get huffy when you ask them for their ID. in a bad mood (=the way that you feel), especially because someone has offended you: Some customers get huffy when you ask them for their ID.—huffily adverb |