huffily

«huffily» in Mova's school dictionary: In a sulky, annoyed and offended way — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

In a sulky, annoyed and offended way. tree →

sense in the lessons

Shows a character is cross because their feelings or pride are hurt: «said huffily», «walked off huffily». Alice's creatures in Wonderland are always taking offence and answering huffily, like the Mouse and the Caterpillar.

examples

• «Fine, I'll play by myself,» she said huffily. tree →
• The Mouse swam off huffily when Alice mentioned her cat. tree →
• He folded his arms huffily. tree →
• The cat stalked off huffily when we laughed at it. tree →
• «I'm not talking to you,» said Toad huffily. tree →
• She huffily slammed the door. tree →

note

Adverb from «huffy». Related: «in a huff» = in a bad mood because you feel insulted. Similar: sulkily, crossly, grumpily.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «huffily» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.