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huff·y
 huffy
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- pronunciation:
- huh
fi
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
huffier, huffiest |
| definition 1: |
easily irritated or quickly offended; touchy; sulky.
As a teenager, she was often huffy in the company of her mother.- synonyms:
- irritable, peevish, petulant, sulky, testy, touchy
- similar words:
- hypersensitive, moody, thin-skinned
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| definition 2: |
characterized by sulky resentment.
Her response was only a huffy shrug.- similar words:
- resentful, sulky, sullen
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| related words: |
choleric, perverse, petulant, sensitive, waspish |
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| derivations: |
huffily (adv.), huffiness (n.) |
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