huff
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++huff1 /hʌf/ verb informal 1 huff and puff informal a) BREATHEto breathe out in a noisy way, especially when you do something that involves a lot of physical effort 气喘吁吁 He was huffing and puffing by the time he got to the top. 他到顶层的时候已经气喘吁吁了。 b) to show clearly that you strongly disagree with or are annoyed about something 强烈反对；发脾气 After a lot of huffing and puffing, he eventually gave in to our request. 经过多番强烈反对后，他最终还是妥协，同意了我们的请求。2 [transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are annoyed, often because someone has offended you 〔常指因受到冒犯而〕生气地说 ‘I haven’t got time for that now, ’ huffed Sam irritably. “我目前没有时间做那件事情。”萨姆气冲冲地说道。→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
huff• The butler inserted a hooked finger into his collar, grimaced and huffed.• Now there's to be a schools painting competition about the bulldozers that can huff and puff and pull the house down.• Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down.• He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidence stacked up against him.• Marvin huffed off to compose his cable.• "That was unbelievably irresponsible, " huffed one teacher.huff2 noun in a huff BAD-TEMPEREDfeeling angry or bad-tempered, especially because someone has offended you 生气，气恼〔尤指因受到冒犯〕go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff She stormed out in a huff. 她气呼呼地冲了出去。Examples from the Corpus
huff• He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary.• Did Parks stomp off in a huff like some injured prima donna, some egomaniac?• Owen went off in a huff and read the papers.• He was still in a huff that she was planning to take Petey along to the meeting that night.• Aunt Glegg leaves in an insulted huff, saying she will call in the five hundred pounds she loaned to Tulliver.• He was in a little huff.• It gloats when we win and goes in the huff when we lose.Origin huff1 (1500-1600) From the soundhuff1 verbhuff2 nounChinese
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huff
huff1 /hʌf/ 
verb informal
a. to breathe out in a noisy way, especially when you do something that involves a lot of physical effort:
He was huffing and puffing by the time he got to the top.
b. to show clearly that you strongly disagree with or are annoyed about something:
After a lot of huffing and puffing, he eventually gave in to our request.
2. [transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are annoyed, often because someone has offended you:
‘I haven’t got time for that now,’ huffed Sam irritably.
huff2 noun
in a huff feeling angry or bad-tempered, especially because someone has offended you
go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff
She stormed out in a huff.
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verb informal Date: 1500-1600
Origin: From the sound
1. huff and puffOrigin: From the sound
a. to breathe out in a noisy way, especially when you do something that involves a lot of physical effort:
b. to show clearly that you strongly disagree with or are annoyed about something:
2. [transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are annoyed, often because someone has offended you:
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nounin a huff feeling angry or bad-tempered, especially because someone has offended you
go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff
colour/color the appearance that things have, resulting from the way in which they reflect light. Red, green and blue are colours. 指颜色、色彩（如红色、绿色、蓝色） ：◆ What's your favourite colour? 你最喜欢的颜色是什么？ ◆ bright/dark/light colours 鲜艳的／深／浅颜色 shade a particular form of a colour, especially when describing how light or dark it is. Sky blue is a shade of blue. 指色彩的浓淡深浅、色度（如天蓝是蓝色的一种） hue ( a colour or a particular shade of a colouror 指颜色、色度、色调 ：◆ His face took on an unhealthy, whitish hue. 他的脸上透出一丝病态的苍白。 tint a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface 指色调、淡色彩、一层淡色 ：◆ leaves with red and gold autumn tints 金秋时节略呈红黄色的树叶 tinge a small amount of a colour 指微量、少许颜色 ：◆ There was a pink tinge to the sky. 天空略带一点淡淡的粉红色。
tint or tinge? 用 tint 还是 tinge？
You can say 可以说 ：◆ a reddish tint/tinge or 或 ：◆ a tinge of red 略带一点淡红色 but not 但不说 ：◆ a tint of red Tint is often used in the plural, buttinge is almost always singular.* tint 常用作复数，但 tinge 几乎总是作单数。
Patterns
a warm/rich colour/shade/hue/tinta bright/vivid/vibrant/dark/deep colour/shade/huea pale/pastel/soft/subtle/delicate colour/shade/huea light/strong/neutral/natural colour/shade