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difference between "huff" and "puff"
What is the difference between "huff" and "puff" in the following sentence?
"He huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain."
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the phrase is widely known in English because it appears in a popular story for little children, called The Three Little Pigs. When they built houses, the big bad wolf would come round to try to catch them, and say 'I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down.'
Puff is quite a common word on its own, but huff almost never appears without puff.
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