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In some senses, huffer is marked as obsolete, US, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
huffer
UK /ˈhʌfə/ US /ˈhʌfɚ/
noun 3name 1
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1ADJ.
major
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noun
1
A drug addict who gets a high by inhaling or sniffing (huffing) intoxicating fumes, as in glue or aerosols.
2
One who huffs.
“Taxi,” I yelled, “taxi,” racing across the street and grazing the bumper of a delivery van that veered and stopped short, the driver cursing me with proletarian gusto. I reached the door about half an arm’s length ahead of a grey-haired gentleman who huffed, “It’s mine, it’s mine,” and I dropped into the vinyl-covered seat, twirled the handle that lifted a safety-glass barrier between me and the huffer, […]
“I don’t want paperback.” / Of course she didn’t. “Well, you can borrow an electronic version. The library—” / “Eh, that’s not reading.” She huffed again. She was a major huffer. “Kids today, reading on their phones. That’s not real reading.”
3
A bully; a blusterer.
To be expos'd in th'end to ſuffer / By ſuch a Braggadochio Huffer.
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A surname.
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“Taxi,” I yelled, “taxi,” racing across the street and grazing the bumper of a delivery van that veered and stopped short, the driver cursing me with proletarian gusto. I reached the door about half a
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“I don’t want paperback.” / Of course she didn’t. “Well, you can borrow an electronic version. The library—” / “Eh, that’s not reading.” She huffed again. She was a major huffer. “Kids today, reading
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Moving back out into the other room, I opened the other door, looking forward to seeing what Seamus’s room was going to be like. Unfortunately, that door opened up into a huge dressing room and nothin
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