take huff

English

Verb

take huff (third-person singular simple present takes huff, present participle taking huff, simple past took huff, past participle taken huff)

(dated, idiomatic) To take offence.
- 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
  He is as proud as Lucifer , he is always taking huff about one thing or the other.

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