huffer

A drug addict who gets a high by inhaling or sniffing (huffing) intoxicating fumes, as in glue or aerosols.

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.”

A bully; a blusterer.

To be expos'd in th'end to ſuffer / By ſuch a Braggadochio Huffer.

A surname.