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huff-nosed
† ˈhuff-ˌnosed Obs. rare. [app. f. huff int., v., or n. + nose.] ? That turns up the nose; scornful.? a 1550 Becon Nosegay Wks. (1560–3) i. 103 The proude Pharises the galaunt Byshops, the huffe nosed priestes. Oxford English Dictionary
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▪ I. huff, v. (hʌf) [Huff vb. and n. appear late in the 16th c.; the vb. being somewhat the earlier. The formation was evidently imitative of the sound of a blast of air through an orifice: cf. the earlier use of huff int., and the parallel puff. In Preston's Cambyses (c 1570), Huff, Ruff, and Snuff... Oxford English Dictionary
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