huff-snuff

English

Noun

huff-snuff (plural huff-snuffs)

  1. (archaic) A swaggering or blustering bully; a braggart or swashbuckler.
    • 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 123:
      “Thou wry-necked, trash-mongering, swaggering, double-tongued, huff-snuff!”
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