take huff

verb

take huff

verb
1

Dated, Idiomatic To take offence.

  • He is as proud as Lucifer , he is always taking huff about one thing or the other.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.