different between uffish vs huffish

English

Etymology

From its sound; Carroll explained the word as "a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish."

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?f'?sh, IPA^(key): /??f??/

Adjective

uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish)

1. (nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered
   • 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)

     And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!

   • 1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal (volumes 52-53)

     Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.

English

Etymology

huff +? -ish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?f??/

Adjective

huffish (comparative more huffish, superlative most huffish)

1. Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

Derived terms

• huffishly
• huffishness