Definition of Huffish

1. Adjective. Sullen or moody.

Exact synonyms: Sulky
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Huffishness, Sulk, Sulkiness, Sulkiness, Sulkiness

Definition of Huffish

1. a. Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

Definition of Huffish

1. Adjective. Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Huffish

1. sulky [adj] - See also: sulky

Medical Definition of Huffish

1. Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Huffish

huevos rancheros
huff
huffcap
huffcaps
huffed
huffer
huffers
huffier
huffiest
huffily
huffiness
huffinesses
huffing
huffingly
huffings
huffish (current term)
huffishly
huffishness
huffkin
huffkins
huffs
huffy
hug
hug-me-tight
hug drug
hugable
huge
hugely
hugemungous
hugeness

Literary usage of Huffish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The adult male in spring has the upper parts rusty russet brown, with dark centres to the feathers, the eye stripe being huffish white; while the wings and ..."

2. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1866)
"Joseph is old, lazy, and huffish, and tells her that the tree is too high, and that he may get her cherries who got her with child. Whereupon Mary prays for ..."

3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1895)
"Upper half of the head blackish brown ; sides of the head and throat whitish buff; lower part of the neck huffish, minutely spotted with black ; mantle and ..."

4. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1901)
"Upper breast and flank» huffish white, strongly barred with buff. These little birds were by no means plentiful. They were found in small parties of five or ..."

5. An Illustrated Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders (1899)
"In autumn the black on the head and throat is obscured by the huffish- ... and the throat is merely streaked with black on a huffish ground. ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"... narrowly streaked with blackish, the streaks predominating on top of head ; below white, tinged in a varying degree with huffish, and streaked, ..."

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