subs. (old).—A swaggerer.

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  1682.  J. BANKS, Vertue Betray’d, Prologue, lines 23–4.

        Welcome Mask-Teazer, Peevish Gamster, HUFFER;
All Fools, but Politicians, we can suffer.

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  1770.  LORD HAILES, Ancient Scottish Poetry, note on ‘Seven Deadly Sins,’ line 34. HUFFERS (or threateners), boasters, and they who pick quarrels.

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