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huffy
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. quick to take offense [syn: thin-skinned , touchy ] roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: mad , sore ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As you would imagine, he was rather huffy ! ▪ He became huffy , then nervous. ▪ He could get quite huffy at all her complicated ways. ▪ I told them the Dispatch was doing a feature on the hanging debate; unfortunately that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ready to take offense," 1670s, from huff + -y (2). Related: Huffily ; huffiness .\n
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated 2 easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy 3 puffed up
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The ' Huffy Corporation ' is an American manufacturer and importer of bicycles. It has its roots in 1887 when George P. Huffman purchased the Davis Sewing Machine Company and moved its factory to Dayton, Ohio . They made their first bicycle in 1892. In ...
Usage examples of huffy.
If you had done with Cuffy what you ought to have done when he first came into Parliament, and had prevented him from going over to Duffy, you would have got him into alliance with Fuffy, you would have had with you the weight attaching as a smart debater to Guffy, you would have brought to bear upon the elections the wealth of Huffy, you would have got in for three counties Juffy, Kuffy, and Luffy, and you would have strengthened your administration by the official knowledge and the business habits of Muffy.
Evidently his uncomfortable predicament had upset his digestion for he rumbled lamentably and at each uncontrollable gurgitation he assumed an air of huffy grandeur.
Over the years, Huffman produced some of the most memorable bicycles made in America: the Huffman Dayton Streamliner in the 1930s, the Huffy Radio Bicycle in the 1950s, and the Huffy Dragster with a distinctive banana-shaped seat in the 1960s.
This helped Huffy meet demand, but the company soon found that it simply could not make a profit selling bicycles at the prices that its biggest customer, Wal-Mart, was willing to pay.
She could picture Nevell Blackthorn all huffy and trying to throw his weight around.
Wal-Mart in particular was pressing Huffy: It ordered 900,000 bicycles at one time, but insisted that Huffy lower its prices significantly.
If you had done with Cuffy what you ought to have done when he first came into Parliament, and had prevented him from going over to Duffy, you would have got him into alliance with Fuffy, you would have had with you the weight attaching as a smart debater to Guffy, you would have brought to bear upon the elections the wealth of Huffy, you would have got in for three counties Juffy, Kuffy, and Luffy, and you would have strengthened your administration by the official knowledge and the business habits of Muffy.
Black clothes and heavy eye make-up, and the obligatory Cure albums providing their soundtrack of facile angst-platitudes, essential listening for huffy teenagers.
But when I asked her if she’d ever commanded in a multiship engagement, she got huffy.