as in huff
an outburst or display of excited anger
she throws a royal hissy whenever her food is late
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Kemp looked at the ceiling and blew a huff of air when Schwartz announced the sentence.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
24 Aug. 2025 -
Getty Images To date, the post has amassed more than 900 comments from TikTok viewers, many of them poking fun at the golden retriever mother's annoyed expression and shallow huffs.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Prettygarden Flowy Fall Maxi Dress This pick offers a similar fit to the Mascomoda dress, but with a more understated design.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
18 Sep. 2025
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So while the 27-year-old is one of the most potent bats available, teams will have to decide on his positional fit.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Robinson also explained the obscure engravings found on bullet casings that were left behind at the scene.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office What To Know Videos posted on social media after the shooting showed officers carrying Zinn from the scene as students can be heard screaming.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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His offensive line was terrible, and Malik Nabers wasn’t as open as his tantrum suggests.—
Vic Tafur,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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For Young, this amounts to a major temper tantrum.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Sep. 2025
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The astonishing Laanstra-Corn does not play Hedvig purely as an innocent; there’s something as dangerous and emotionally labile in her shocked face as there is in Gregers’s explosive outbursts.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
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Segal advises employers who are weighing their options following a contentious employee outburst to run through a series of questions to determine a course of action.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Sure, other fates are possible, like direct collapse to a black hole or explosions through the pair-instability mechanism, but a core-collapse supernova (also known as a type II supernova) represents the fate of the majority of the most massive stars ever to be born.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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Such an explosion would happen to the smallest possible black holes, at most, once every 100,000 years, according to previous theories.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Hissy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hissy. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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