Huffish

  

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Huffish

Definition: Huffish

Huffish

Adjective

1. Sullen or moody.

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

 

Synonym: Huffish

Synonym: sulky (adj). (additional references)

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Expression: Huffish

Expression using "huffish": huffish sulky. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Huffish

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

huffish

2
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Modern Translation: Huffish

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.

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Misspellings: Huffish

Misspellings

"Huffish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tuffieha, uffish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Huffish"

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)

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Anagrams: Huffish

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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