Huffy

Definition: Huffy

Huffy

Adjective

1. Quick to take offense.

2. (informal) roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "huffy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Synonyms: Huffy

Irascibility

Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ".

Crosswords: Huffy

References

• Huffy Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• HUFFY CORP.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i prekshëm (palpable, sensitive, susceptible, tactile, tangible, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous, vulnerable), i pizmosur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غضبان (strained). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдит (angry, cross, gruff, high, huffish, irate, ireful, peevish, ratty, red-necked, resentful, rusty, snappish, sour, stroppy, sullen), обиден (abusive, aggrieved, injured, injurious, insulted, invasive, invidious, offensive, opprobrious, pained, resentful), намусен (disagreeable, dour, huffish, pouty, sulky), арогантен (arrogant, dogmatic, hoity toity, insolent, overbearing, presuming, uppish). (various references)

Czech

urážlivý (abusive, contumelious, huffish, hurtful, injurious, invective, obnoxious, offensive, outrageous, petulant, shocking, touchy). (various references)

Farsi 

ترشرو(huffish), عصبانی (Mad, Maniac, Nervous, Nervy, Pelting, Waxy). (various references)

French

froissé, fâché. (various references)

German

übelnehmerischen. (various references)

Greek 

φουσκωμένοσ (flatulent, puffy, tumid), εύθικτοσ (queasy, sensitive, touchy), θυμωμένοσ (angry, disgruntled, huffish, irate, mad, wrathful, wrathy). (various references)

Hungarian

sértődött (peeved, piqued, resentful, sullen), megsértődött (peeved), érzékenykedő (testy). (various references)

Manx

smullagh (scowling), smorigagh (touchy), curneeinagh. (various references)

Norwegian

snurt, fornermet. (various references)

Pig Latin

uffyhay.(various references)

Portuguese

zangado (angry, cross, crossly, fractious, hot, peeved, waxy), suscet�vel (hoity-toity, improvable), sens�vel (huffish), ofendido (aggrieved, injured, resentful, shirty), melindroso (dollish, fastidious, kid-glove, kittle, pernickety, ticklish, umbrageous, well-made), irrit�vel (grumpy, hot-blooded, huffish), irritado (angry, huffish, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, testy, tetchy, waxy), insolente (arrogant, cockish, contemptuous, contumelious, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, lingerer, lord-like, malapert, pert, rough, rude, saucy, thrasonical, uppity). (various references)

Romanian

supãrãcios (cantankerous, cross-grained, huffish, humoursome, irascible, irritable, liveried, peevish, pettish, scrupulous, short tempered, sour, testy, tetchy, touchy). (various references)

Russian 

самодовольный (bighead, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, complacent, conceited, coxcombical, po-faced, priggish, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up), раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy), обидчивый (hoity toity, huffish, pettish, quick to take offence, sensitive, techy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uznemiran, ohol (arrogant, disdainful, haughtly, haughty, hoity toity, magisterial, overbearing, overblown, proud, snippy, snooty, stuck up, supercilious), ogorčen (acrimonious, bitter, embittered, exasperated, indignant), lako uvredljiv. (various references)

Spanish

enojado (angry, cross, displeased, hipped, mad, shirty, snotty, vexed), enojadizo (fractious, irritable, peevish, short tempered, splenetic, waspish), enfadado (aggravating, angry, cross, passionate, ratty, snuffy, vexed). (various references)

Swedish

snarstucken (spiky, testy, tetchy, touchy). (various references)

Turkish

sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, liverish, mad, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humor, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, ratty, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, waxy, wild, wrought up), kolay sinirlenir (huffish, inflammable, irascible, short tempered), kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), içerlemiş (huffish, indignant, resentful), dargın (angry with, cross, displeased, huffish, injured, offended, resentful, stuffy, vexed, wroth). (various references)

Ukrainian

уразливий (biting, defenceless, defenseless, pregnable, sensitive, squeamish, techy, tetchy, thin-skinned, vulnerable), скривджений (aggrieved, hipped, miff), роздратований (aggravated, angry, annoyed, bad tempered, disgruntled, edgy, exasperated, irritated, nasty, peeved, querulous, shirty, vexed). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "huffy": chuffy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Huffy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: guffy, heffy, hefy, Hefyn, Hfi, hluff, hofey, hoff, huf, hufe, hufty, Hufuf, muffy, ruffy, ufby. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: huff.

-3 letters: uh.

+1 letter: chuffy.

+2 letters: huffily.

+5 letters: faithfully.