Meanings
verbtake huff (third-person singular simple present takes huff, present participle taking huff, simple past took huff, past participle taken huff)
present singular third person takes huff · participle present taking huff · past took huff · participle past taken huff
- datedidiomaticTo take offence.
He is as proud as Lucifer , he is always taking huff about one thing or the other.
1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC
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