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huff-snuff en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (dated) A swaggering or blustering bully; a braggart or swashbuckler.
    • “Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!” 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 123:

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