Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HUFF, v.t.

1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up. Grew.
2. To hector; to bully; to treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence.

HUFF'ED, pp.

Swelled; puffed up.

HUFF'ER, n.

A bully; a swaggerer; a blusterer.

HUFF'I-NESS, n.

Petulance; the state of being puffed up. Hudibras.

HUFF'ING, ppr.

Swelling; puffing up; blustering.

HUFF'ISH, a.

Arrogant; insolent; hectoring.

HUFF'ISH-LY, adv.

With arrogance or blustering.

HUFF'ISH-NESS, n.

Arrogance; petulance; noisy bluster.

HUFF'Y, a.

Swelled or swelling; petulant.

HUG, n.

1. A close embrace. Gay.
2. A particular gripe in wrestling or scuffling.

HUG, v.t. [Dan. heger, to hug, to cherish, Sw. hugna; Dan. huger, to sit squat on the tail. The latter seems to be the G. hocken, to sit squat, to keep close, D. hukken. The sense is to press, and this word may be allied to hedge.]

1. To press close in an embrace. And hugged me in his arms. Shak.
2. To embrace closely; to hold fast; to treat with fondness. We hug deformities if they bear our names. Glanville.
3. To gripe in wrestling or scuffling. To hug the land, in sailing, to sail as near the land as possible. To hug the wind, to keep the ship close-hauled. Mar. Dict.

HUGE, a. [This word seems to belong to the family of high, D. hoog, G. hoch. If so, the primary sense is to swell or rise. If not, I know not its origin.]

1. Very large or great; enormous; applied to bulk or size; as, a huge mountain; a huge ox.
2. It is improperly applied to space and distance, in the sense of great, vast, immense; as, a huge space; a huge difference. This is inelegant, or rather vulgar.
3. In colloquial language, very great; enormous; as, a huge feeder. Shak.

HUGE'-BEL-LI-ED, a.

Having a very large belly. Milton.

HUGE'-BUILT, a.

Built to a huge size.

HUGE'LY, adv.

Very greatly; enormously; immensely. Doth it not flow as hugely as the seat? Shak.

HUGE'NESS, n.

Enormous bulk or largeness; as the hugeness of a mountain or of an elephant.

HUG'GED, pp.

Closely embraced; held fast.

HUG'GER-MUG-GER, n. [Hugger contains the elements of hug and hedge, and mugger those of smoke, W. mwg, and of smuggle.]

In hugger mugger, denotes in privacy or secrecy, and the word adverbially used, denotes secretly. [It is a low cant word.]

HUG'GING, ppr.

Pressing or embracing closely; fondling.

HU'GUE-NOT, n. [The origin of this word is uncertain. It is conjectured to be a corruption of G. eidgenossen, confederates; eid, oath, and genoss, consort.]

A name formerly given to a Protestant in France.

HU'GUE-NOT-ISM, n.

The religion of the Huguenots in France. Sherwood.

HU'GY, a. [from huge.]

Vast in size. [Not used.] Carew.

HU-ISH'ER, n. [Fr. huissier.]

An usher. [Obs. See Usher.] B. Jonson.

HUKE, n. [W. hug.]

A cloak; a hyke. Bacon.

HULCH, n.

A bunch. [Not used.]