Meanings
nounhuff-snuff (plural huff-snuffs)
plural huff-snuffs
- datedA swaggering or blustering bully; a braggart or swashbuckler.
“Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!”
1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 123
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