huffer

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From huff +‎ -er.

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huffer (plural huffers)

  1. A bully; a blusterer.
    • c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part II, canto III:
      To be expos'd i' th' end to suffer / By such a braggadocio huffer.
  2. A drug addict who gets a high by inhaling or sniffing (huffing) intoxicating fumes, as in glue or aerosols.

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