Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To shift; waver.
  • To blow unsteadily or in flaws.
  • To rumple; roughen.
  • noun A merrymeeting; a feast.

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Examples

  • I have started to reload for my .308, and I get all huffle-puff every time I come across a piece of boxer primed brass in the midts of otherwise useful berdan primed brass.

    Confesssions of a Hull Ho 2008

  • "Lock closes in one minutel Insid huffle or dusti"

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • Egdon Heth is a bad place to get lost in, and the winds do huffle queerer tonight than ever I heard 'em afore.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • I am just as appalled, but it's not like we as a nation did anything but huffle and splutter angrily the last two times they outrageously misspent bailout money.

    365 Gay News 2009

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