Word Meanings - HECTORLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

Related words: (words related to HECTORLY)

• HUFFINESS
  The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton.
• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• HUFFINGLY
  Blusteringly; arrogantly. And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• HUFF
  To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3. (more info) 1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew. 2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• HECTORLY
  Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• TAUNT
  Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• TAUNTING
  from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
• SWAGGERER
  One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RUFFIANLIKE
  Ruffianly. Fulke.
• HUFFISH
  Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant. -- Huff"ish*ly, adv. -- Huff"ish*ness, n.
• HECTOR
  A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• HUFFCAP
  A blusterer; a bully. -- a.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• HUFFY
  1. Puffed up; as, huffy bread. 2. Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• CHUFFINESS
  The quality of being chuffy.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• SHUFFLE
  1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. 2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.