*huff*

n. [ Perh. a modification of chub: cf. W. cyff stock, stump. ] A coarse or stupid fellow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Clownishly; surlily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being chuffy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fat or puffed out in the cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rough; clownish; surly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Huffed p. pr. & vb. n. Huffing. ] [ Cf. OE. hoove to puff up, blow; prob. of imitative origin. ] 1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. [ 1913 Webster ]

You must not presume to huff us. Echard. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Draughts) To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; -- so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. “Left the place in a huff.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take huff, to take offence. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A blusterer; a bully. [ Obs. ] -- a. Blustering; swaggering. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Blusteringly; arrogantly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. -- Huff"ish*ly, adv. -- Huff"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Puffed up; as, huffy bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shuffled p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling ] [ Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle. ] 1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. Rombler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shuffe off, to push off; to rid one's self of. --
To shuffe up, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. [ 1913 Webster ]

I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your life, good master,
Must shuffle for itself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aged creature came
Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shovelboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shuffles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The hedg sparrow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. “A shuffling nag.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]