10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUFFISHNESS»
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1
A dictionary of the English language
Huffishness, *. swelling pride ; petulance. Huffy, a. huffish. Hug, *. a close
embrace ; a gripe in wrestling : v. to embrace closely ; to gripe in wrestling ; to sail
near, as to hug the coast ; to congratulate, as one'f'telf, or himself, <fcc. Huge, hQj,
a.
Robert Joseph Sullivan, Patrick Weston Joyce, 1877
2
De Clifford: Or, The Constant Man
This was said with a mixture of huffishness with goodnature, and being wholly
unchecked by his master, 1 found the latter was in one of those domestic
dilemmas from which few can deliver themselves — that of being governed by his
servant.
Oh, of course, if it is private and I am not to hear, I will go away," said Lola, huffily,
and she rose and with a petulant swish of her skirts went away. Mirabel scarcely
observed her huffishness, so absorbed was her mind with that she was about to ...
Helen Prothero Lewis, 1903
4
The Monthly Christian spectator
... in a tone ot surprise, in which there was also blended a spice of huffishness at
the country minister's not deeming Parade Chapel so very eligible a post after all
; ' why, my good sir, many of your brethren would give their very ears to come to ...
5
Munson's system of phonography: The dictionary of practical ...
Toid-Kstr2,, Toid-K-sTrd2, Toid-| Kstrng2 Huck'sterage, Toid- Kst-RM Hud'dle,
Toid-Dl2, Toid- Dld2, Toid-Dl^NG Hud'dler, Toid-Dl^-R Huff, Koid-F2, Koid-Ft2,
Koid-F-i-NG Huffish, Koid-r^SH Huffishness, Koid-F*- SH-Xs Huffy. Koid-F2 Hug ...
James Eugene Munson, 1906
... now faced him — a woman powerful in the integrity of the belief she had that
her cause of complaint was a just one — above all, a woman capable of
controlling her temper and her tongue without any appearance of sulkiness or
huffishness.
7
A New and Improved Standard French and English and English ...
HUFF, va. vn. morguer, insulter; goofier. HUFFISH huffish, adj. fanfaron.
HUFFISHLY huf'ffshle, adv. fiercment. HUFFISHNESS huf'fishnes, *. arrogance,/.
HUG hug, s. embrassnde, (jtreintc, /. HUG, va. vn. embrasser; cberir. — the wind; [
mar.] ...
Alexander G. Collot, 1856
8
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
... orblow you, I take[i. e. huff] thisman.' (So also inDanish; blœse en brikke, to huff
(lit.blow) aman at draughts.) Also huffer, in Hudibras, asabove; huffish, huff ishly,
huffishness, huffy, huffiness. HUG,toembrace closely. (Scand.?)In Shak. Merch.
9
Walker's Pronouncing dictionary of the English language, ...
Huffish, -JUh, a., arrogant; insolent Huffishness, -net, s., arrogance ; petulance.
Huffy, -fe, a., petulant Hug, Aug, v.a., to embrace closely; to congratulate. — s., a
close embrace. Huge, huje, a., of excessive size; enormous. Hugeness, -n«, s.
P Austin Nuttall, John Walker, 1873
10
The Globe dictionary of the English language
HTTFFISHNESS HUMOUR Huffishness, (hufish-nes) n. Arrogance; bluster ;
petulance. Huffy, (hufe) a. Puffed up ; swelled :— characterized by arrogance or
petulance ; sulky. Hug, (hug) v. t. [A.-S. heyan.] To press close in an embrace; to
clasp ...
