Huffer, subs. (old).—A swaggerer.
1682. Banks, Vertue Betrayed, Prol. lines 23–4. Welcome mask-teazer, peevish gamster, huffer: All fools, but politicians, we can suffer.
1770. Lord Hailes, Ancient Scottish Poetry, note on ‘Seven Deadly Sins,’ line 34. Huffers (or threateners), boasters, and they who pick quarrels.
Huffle, verb. (venery).—1. To bag-pipe (q.v.).
2. (colloquial).—To shift; to hesitate; to waver.
Huff-snuff, subs. (old).—A person apt to take offence.
1592. Nashe, Strange News, etc. (Grosart, Works, ii., 184). Gabriel Huffe-Snuffe Knowne to the world for a foole, and clapt in the Fleete for a poet.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Risentito.… Also a huffe snuffe, one that will soone take pepper in the nose, that will revenge euerie small matter. [[374]]
1750. Ozell, Rabelais, iv., pref. xxiii. Freebooters, desperadoes, and bullying huff-snuffs.
Huftie-tuftie, adj. (old).—Swaggering; gallant.