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Wiktionary

  1. v. simple past tense and past participle of miff.
  2. adj. Irritated, put out or annoyed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. aroused to impatience or anger

Etymologies

  1. Possibly expressive of disgust.

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  • bilby "When in Paradise Lost Milton’s Satan stood in the pit of hell and raged at heaven, he was merely a trifle miffed compared to how I felt that day. I felt totally alone, with the world receding from me in every direction and you could have used my anger to weld steel."
    - Terry Pratchett, 'I'm slipping away a bit at a time... and all I can do is watch it happen' in dailymail.co.uk, 7 Oct 2008. Oct 7, 2008

  • yarb [...] So that's the end
    of my sabbatical - I'm pretty miffed
    (nor, I suppose, is he too chuffed about it).

    - Peter Reading, C, 1984 Aug 2, 2008

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