light paste, enclosing fruit or meat whilst stewing, so called from its huffing or puffing up in the operation. This paste is generally made with yeast. Glouc.
·vi To <<Enlarge>>; to swell up; as, bread huffs. II. Huff ·noun A boaster; one swelled with a fals...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
To reprove, or scold at any one; also to bluster, bounce, ding, or swagger. A captain huff; a noted ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose