Word Meanings - HUFFINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blusteringly; arrogantly. And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.

BALLADE
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
HUFFINGLY
Blusteringly; arrogantly. And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.
ARROGANTLY
In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
BLUSTERINGLY
In a blustering manner.
BONNYCLABBER
Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.
BONNY
F. bon, fem. bonne, good, fr. L. bonus good. See Bounty, and cf. 1. Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns. 2. Gay; merry; frolicsome;
BALLADRY
Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.
BALLADER
A writer of ballads.
BALLAD
A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. (more info) ballada a dancing song, fr. ballare to dance; cf. It. ballata. See 2d
BALLAD MONGER
A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.