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To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew.

A blusterer; a bully. [Obs.] -- a.

A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.

The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton.

Blusteringly; arrogantly. [R.] And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.

Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. -- Huff"ish*ly, adv. -- Huff"ish*ness, n.

Puffed up; as, huffy bread.

A coarse or stupid fellow. Shak.

Clownishly; surlily.

The quality of being chuffy.

Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

See Shovelboard.

,.A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

One who shuffles.

The hedg sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." Shak.

Practicing or siding with both parties. All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange.

A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.

ically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.