Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A petulant, bad-tempered mood; a huff.
- noun A petty quarrel or argument; a tiff.
- transitive verb To cause to become offended or annoyed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give a slight offense to; displease: nearly always in the past participle: as, she was somewhat miffed.
- noun A fit of Petulant displeasure; a feeling of slight anger or resentment.
- Vexed; offended; angry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.
- transitive verb colloq. To offend slightly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
argument ,quarrel . - noun A state of being
offended . - verb transitive, usually used in the passive to
offend slightly - verb intransitive to become slightly
offended
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of irritation or annoyance
- verb cause to be annoyed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(Hey ... we used to hunt dear with sticks and pointy rocks, now look at the burdens we carry just to miff a shot.)
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We could do courses on "picking the right cut of meat", "tending your fires", "Wood Chips, Rubs, Mops, and Sauces", and "Medium-Rare meat, just to miff the ladies".
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It did miff me when I found out that some of the premium content like Harry Potter was only available through iTunes.
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Why our society relegates the natural to the realm of taboo, while paying no mind to shameless violence on prime time never fails to miff me.
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Parruntly, and hoo am Ai to kwestyun a purrfikly gud urban miff, “See Yu Nekst Toosdai” is a runnin joek in awl John Landis/Frank Oz fillums – tehy fink it wus teh werst fillum ever maed an so will maek som refrens to it in awl teihr fillums.
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The new year has a sparked a revival of rumors that Paris Hilton is a miff-diver.
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So far the talk has raged along two distinct axes: a wild litany of names and places coursing through the gossip miff, but for the record, little save shadowy, blind allegations.
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Oar is dis a miff promoated by the sharpie marker lobby?
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He lurks in his Lerkim, cold under the roof, where he makes his own clothes out of miff-muffered moof.
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Such a move would also miff top adviser George Stephanopoulos, who'd lose the one advantage of his closet-size office: its shortcut through the dining room to the Oval Office.
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