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- noun Plural form of
huffing .
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Examples
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The Bush Regime with its comic huffings and puffings is unaware that it has made itself the laughing stock of the world, a comedy version of the Third Reich.
American Insouciance 2008
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The grumblings in Becker's mustache and beard turned to pleased and slightly embarrassed huffings.
Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003
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The sounds were all about, snarls and growls and huffings, slicing through the haze, out of the shadows.
The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992
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Sounds darted out of the haze to challenge and tease-the shrill call of night birds, the click of insects, scrapes and rustlings, huffings and snarls.
The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992
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On coming down into the kitchen to discuss his fried eggs and bacon he saw at once that Mrs. Bubb was seriously perturbed; with huffings and cuffings -- a most unusual thing -- she had just despatched her children to school, and was now in conflict with
The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880
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She claims to prefer this voice, for all its flatness and occasional glitchiness, to the conventional huffings and puffings of some great Narrator.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES PARKER 2011
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