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huff-snuff
† huff-snuff, n. (a.) Obs. [f. huff v. + snuff, in the sense ‘offence, resentment’; but largely suggested by the riming of the two words, as in reduplicated formations: see huff v.] A conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offence; a braggart, hector.1583 Stanyhurst æneis etc. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Gabriel Harvey
what news do you hear of that good Gabriel Huff-Snuff, Known to the world for a fool, and clapped in the Fleet for a rhymer?" wikipedia.org
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huff
▪ 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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