Clues for the word "HUFF"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 66 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on June 04, 2025.
Definition of huff
- v. t. - To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
- v. t. - To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
- v. t. - To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3.
- v. i. - To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
- v. i. - To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.
- v. i. - To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.
- n. - A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
- n. - A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.
Referring Clues
- Piqued state
- Snit
- Bit of a fit
- Blow hard
- Part of the wolf's threat
- Peeved mood
- ___ and puff
- ___ and puff
- Puff's partner
- Sulking mood
- Blow, Big Bad Wolf-style
- Big Bad Wolf's tactic
- State of vexation
- 'I'll ___ and I'll puff ...'
- In a ___ (indignant)
- Tizzy
- Angry, resentful state
- Use Pam as a drug, maybe
- Fit of petty annoyance
- Fit of anger
- Fit of pique
- Part of a fairy-tale wolf's threat
- Fit for pique
- Fit of annoyance
- "I'll ___ and I'll puff and I'll blow your ..."
- Angry mood
- Cancelled Showtime series
- Pique
- Paddy
- Fit of irritation
- State of having taken offence
- Pique - remove from board
- Passing mood of anger
- Fit of ill temper
- Mood of umbrage
- Pet given smack, temperature having changed
- Sulky fit
- Fit of petulance encountered in playing draughts?
- Temper hot before strike, not cold
- Tobacco advertisement?
- Fit of resentment
- Copy a fabled wolf
- State of irritation
- Bluster
- Emulate the Big Bad Wolf
- Word in the Big, Bad Wolf's threat
- Breathe like the Big Bad Wolf
- Leave in a ___ (storm out)
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - June 04, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 08, 2025
- Daily American - October 28, 2024
- LA Times - April 21, 2024
- USA Today - March 08, 2023
- Daily American - October 28, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 22, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 20, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 26, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - June 29, 2017
- Guardian Quick - June 08, 2017
- Universal - May 05, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 22, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 17, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - July 17, 2016
- Universal - June 13, 2016
- Guardian Quick - April 19, 2016
- New York Times - February 10, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 08, 2016
- LA Times - March 13, 2015
- LA Times - January 06, 2015
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - November 23, 2014
- Netword - July 24, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 26, 2014
- Guardian Quick - November 16, 2013
- Chicago Reader - September 20, 2013
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 26, 2013
- New York Times - August 12, 2013
- New York Times - February 12, 2013
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 26, 2012
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