different between huff vs fuff

English

Etymology

Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

huff (plural huffs)

1. A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

2. An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
3. (obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
   • 1667, Robert South, The Practice of Religion enforced by Reason

     Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge [...] of wit.

4. (draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

Verb

huff (third-person singular simple present huffs, present participle huffing, simple past and past participle huffed)

1. (intransitive) To breathe heavily.

2. (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
3. (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.

4. (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense. [from the 16th c.]
   • '1691, Robert South, On the nature and measure of conscience

     This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.

5. (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
   • 1720, Laurence Echard, The history of England: from the first entrance of Julius Caesar and the Romans to the end of the reign of King James the first containing the space of 1678 years

     You must not think to huff us.

6. (transitive, archaic) To vex; to offend.
   • 1851, Varieties in English Life (page 42)

     Signior Riccabocca had become very intimate, as we have seen, at the Parsonage. But not so at the Hall. For though the Squire was inclined to be very friendly to all his neighbours he was, like most country gentlemen, rather easily huffed.

7. (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants. [from the 20th c.]
8. (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

Translations

Norwegian

Etymology

Onomatopoeia

Interjection

huff

1. expression of minor revulsion; minor horror

   uff huff, så mye mas!

   huff a meg!

Synonyms

• uff

Derived terms

• huffe
• huffing

Related terms

• isj
• æsj

Noun

huff n

1. An instance of uttering huff.

Inflection

References

• “huff” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “huff” in The Ordnett Dictionary

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare puff.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

fuff (third-person singular simple present fuffs, present participle fuffing, simple past and past participle fuffed)

1. (dialect, transitive, intransitive) To puff.

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Noun

fuff (plural fuffs)

1. (dialect) A puff.
2. (dialect) The spitting of a cat.
3. (dialect) A burst of anger.