| 单词 | huff |
| 释义 | huff I. intransitive verb 1. a. < he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down — Three Little Pigs > < another tug huffs quietly somewhere down below — W.V.Anderson > b. < the first cyclists huffed into sight — Time > 2. a. < faced with new wage demands, management huffs about spiraling costs and the dangers of inflation > < children will soon discover that this is only huffing and puffing on your part — H.R.Litchfield & L.H.Dembo > b. (1) < the father huffs and puffs and says, “Do you think I'm made of money” — Peter DeVries > (2) < resigned in pique and huffed off to London — Janet Flanner > 3. archaic < the woman has huffed and won't trust me — Frederick Marryat > 4. now dialect < the bread huffs > 5. transitive verb 1. a. < it huffs air steadily … through its hollow shaft — Newsweek > < their buying huffed low-priced motor shares — Time > b. < huffed himself up and stumped out of the room — Jackson Burgess > 2. archaic < quarreling with his bread and butter and huffing the waiter — Washington Irving > 3. < this astounding rigidity of custom huffed the king — Francis Hackett > 4. II. 1. < at the moment of firing he might actually turn his face away from his sights to avoid the huff from the pan — Odell & Willard Shepard > 2. < in an … unprecedented display of parliamentary huff, refused to join the traditional procession — Mollie Panter-Downes > — usually used in the phrase in a huff < the dissenting experts will secede in a huff — Ernst Pulgram > < if you encounter a person who's in a huff about something, you'd better wait until he cools off — W.J.Reilly > 3. obsolete a. < quell … the huff of the proud — Randle Cotgrave > b. < this young huff commanded a sergeant to pay him respect — William Darrell > 4. dialect England a. b. 5. Synonyms: see offense III. dialect |
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