Huff

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 196

huf, n. A fit of petulance or anger; a boaster. V. t. [HUFFED (lmft), HUFFING.] To swell, puff to treat with insolence, bully. — v. i. To dilate, up; to take offense; to bluster, storm.