huff and puff en · VERB
Meanings
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To breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise.
They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat.
August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| huffed and puffed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| huffed and puffed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| huffs and puffs | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| huffing and puffing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |