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# huffy

«huffy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Easily offended; quick to sulk** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (huffy, huffier, huffiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Easily offended; quick to sulk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#m1)

2) Sulky and annoyed because your feelings are hurt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

An informal everyday word: «Don't get huffy». In Alice in Wonderland many creatures are huffy, taking offence at Alice's harmless words. In stories, a huffy character goes off in a sulk.

### examples

- Don't get huffy just because you lost the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#x1)
- My sister gets huffy when we tease her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#x2)
- The Caterpillar was very huffy with Alice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#x3)
- He's in a huffy mood today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#x4)
- Toad got huffy when his friends laughed at him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#x5)
- The huffy cat refused to come in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/#x6)

### note

Informal; comparative huffier, superlative huffiest. Related: «in a huff», «huff and puff» (to complain loudly; also the Big Bad Wolf's huffing and puffing).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «huffy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/huffy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.