English Dictionary

huff

IPA（発音記号）

/hʌf/

名詞

廃用

A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. / An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. / (obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.

日本語の意味

重い息、ため息、うなり声を示す状態 / 怒りや苛立ち、不快感などの表現（不機嫌、むっつりした様子） / （古語）偽りの自尊心に溢れた人、虚勢を張る人

After climbing the steep trail, Maria sank onto a rock and let out a relieved huff.

急な山道を登った後、マリアは岩に腰を下ろし、ほっとした荒い息をついた。

意味（1）

A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.

意味（2）

An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

Such wickedness had never come into his head; but he had a certain pleasure in being the confidential friend of a very pretty woman; and when he heard that that pretty woman's husband was jealous, the pleasure was enhanced rather than otherwise. On that Sunday, as he had left the house in Curzon Street, he had told Stanbury that Trevelyan [the husband] had just gone off in a huff, which was true enough, and he had walked from thence down Clarges Street, and across Piccadilly to St. James's Street, with a jauntier step than usual, because he was aware that he himself had been the occasion of that trouble.

意味（3）

(obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.

Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge … of wit.

意味（4）

(draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

huffs （ plural ）