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Definition: Huffish |
HuffishAdjective1. Sullen or moody. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: HuffishSynonym: sulky (adj). (additional references) |
Expression using "huffish": huffish sulky. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
huffish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "huffish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | сърдит (angry, cross, gruff, high, huffy, irate, ireful, peevish, ratty, red-necked, resentful, rusty, snappish, sour, stroppy, sullen), обидчив (hoity toity, miffy, pettish, prickly, resentful, sensitive, spiky, squeamish, susceptible, techy, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous), нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, perky, presuming, sassy, saucy, snotty), намусен (disagreeable, dour, huffy, pouty, sulky). (various references) | |
Czech | urážlivý (abusive, contumelious, huffy, hurtful, injurious, invective, obnoxious, offensive, outrageous, petulant, shocking, touchy). (various references) | |
French | arrogant. (various references) | |
German | übelnehmerisch (huffily, resentful, touchy). (various references) | |
Greek | θυμωμένοσ (angry, disgruntled, huffy, irate, mad, wrathful, wrathy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sértõdött. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uffishhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sensvel (huffy), petulante (flip, hoity-toity, hussy, malapert, perk, pert, petulant, sassy, waspish), irritvel (grumpy, hot-blooded, huffy), irritado (angry, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, testy, tetchy, waxy), arrogante (arrogant, assuming, big, cockish, flatulent, haughty, imperious, lord-like, overbearing, perk, proud, proud-spirited, self-assertive, self-confident, self-pride, self-sufficient, snippy, stuck-up, supercilious, uppish, upstage). (various references) | |
Romanian | susceptibil (difficult, in, irascible, petulaht, scrupulous, sensitive, spiky, susceptible, testy, ticklish, touchy), supãrãcios (cantankerous, cross-grained, huffy, humoursome, irascible, irritable, liveried, peevish, pettish, scrupulous, short tempered, sour, testy, tetchy, touchy), irascibil (bilious, cranky, fretful, irascible, irritable, magged, quick tempered, short tempered, sour, waspy). (various references) | |
Russian | раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ljutit (angry, ireful, querulous, shirty), ljut (angry, bitter, cross, grim, hot, mad, peppery, pissed, racy, severe). (various references) | |
Spanish | resollar (pant, wheeze). (various references) | |
Turkish | sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffy, 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 (huffy, inflammable, irascible, short tempered), içerlemiş (huffy, indignant, resentful), gücenmiş (hurt, in a tiff, offended, resentful), dargın (angry with, cross, displeased, huffy, injured, offended, resentful, stuffy, vexed, wroth). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гордовитий (arrogant, disdainful, high and mighty, hoity toity, overly, presumptuous, proud, proud-hearted, sublime, supercilious), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, choice, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freak, freakish, humorous, humous, inconstant, maggoty, naughty, notional, notionate, skittish, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), дразливий (choleric, crabby, crusty, fractious, pettish, quick tempered, sore, splenic, techy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dễ phát khùng; hay giằn dỗi, dễ nổi cáu, cáu kỉnh (bed, crossly, edgy, fretful, grouchy, peevish, querulous, savage, surly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Huffish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tuffieha, uffish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "huffish" (pronounced 'Huff"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-h-h-i-s-u" | |
-2 letters: huffs. | |
-3 letters: fish, huff, hush. | |
-4 letters: his, huh, iff, ifs, shh. | |
-5 letters: hi, if, is, sh, si, uh, us. | |
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