Huff vs. Sigh — What's the Difference?

A fit of anger or annoyance; a pique

Emit a long, deep audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar

To puff; blow.

A long, deep audible exhalation expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar

To make noisy, empty threats; bluster.

To exhale audibly in a long deep breath, as in weariness or relief.

To react indignantly; take offense.

To emit a similar sound

(Slang) To inhale the fumes of a volatile chemical or substance as a means of becoming intoxicated.

To feel longing or grief; yearn

To cause to puff up; inflate.

To express with or as if with an audible exhalation.

To treat with insolence; bully.

(Archaic) To lament.

To anger; annoy.

The act or sound of sighing.

(Slang) To inhale the fumes of (a volatile chemical, for example) as a means of becoming intoxicated.

(intransitive) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.

A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.

(intransitive) To lament; to grieve.

An expression of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.

(transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

(obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.

(intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.

(draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

(transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

(intransitive) To breathe heavily.

(transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

(intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.

A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.

(intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.

(figurative) a manifestation of grief; a lament.

(intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.

(Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.

(transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.

An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.

To vex; to offend.

To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

(transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.

Hence, to lament; to grieve.

To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).

To make a sound like sighing.

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

To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.

To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.

To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.

A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

To remove from the board a man which could have captured a piece but has not done so; - so called because it was the habit to blow upon the piece.

Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan ent.

A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.

An utterance made by exhaling audibly

A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.

A sound like a person sighing;

A state of irritation or annoyance

Heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily;

Inhale recreational drugs

Utter with a sigh

Blow hard and loudly;