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Definition of Huffish
1. Adjective. Sullen or moody.
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
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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