cowing.
huffy, adj. 1. irritable, touchy, cranky, huffish. See - huffish (def. 1).
2. hurt, injured, wounded, stung, offended; sulky, moping, sullen, glum, morose.
hug, v. 1. embrace, take into one's arms, squeeze, clasp, press to one's bosom, embosom, enfold; hold in one's arms, caress, cuddle, snuggle, lie together, Inf. smooch, Sl. clinch; welcome, receive warmly, receive with open arms.
2. clutch, clench, cling to, hold onto, hold tight, hang onto; grasp, grip, gripe, fasten upon; cherish, love, be attached to, Both Sl. be hooked on, be stuck on; have confidence in, trust in, attach weight to, swear by.
3. keep close, stay near, follow closely, hover near, keep in sight of, shadow, go near.
-n. 4. embrace, bear hug, squeeze, clasp, Sl. clinch; hold, grasp, grip, clutch.
huge, adj. 1. gigantic, gargantuan, enormous, Archaic. enorm, huge, hugeous, large, big, bulky, immense, great, prodigious, herculean; substantial, considerable, sizeable; vast, massive, large-scale, mammoth, jumbo, colossal, monumental, monstrous, gi-gantean; cyclopean, titanic, Brobdingnagian; towering, staggering, mountainous, stupendous, tremendous, Sl. humongous; elephantine, hippopotamic, leviathan, dinosaurian; oversize, kingsize, overlarge; All Inf. whopping, roaring, spanking, walloping, strapping.
2. infinite, unlimited, unbounded, unrestricted, boundless, limitless; comprehensive, inclusive, all-inclusive; complete, exhaustive, thorough.
hugger-mugger, n. 1. confusion, disorder, disarray, disorganization, disarrangement, derangement, confusedness; jumble, mess, Inf. stew, huddle, Scot. Inf. guddle, mix-up, Inf. foul-up, Sl. ballup; upheaval, anarchy, chaos, turmoil, tumult, pandemonium, bedlam, commotion.
2. secrecy, concealment, obscurity, privacy; hiding, covering, sheltering, ensconcing; disguising, camouflaging, screening, veiling; dissembling, cover-up.
-adj. 3. secret, private, confidential, hush-hush, dark, closed, closed-door, closet; hidden, concealed, ensconced, shrouded, disguised, veiled, in the dark; mysterious, arcane, intriguing; covert, undercover, clandestine, feline, nighttime, back-alley.
4. disorderly, in disorder, confused, in disarray, disarranged, deranged, disorganized, jumbled, higgledy-piggledy; muddled, tangled, snarled, Inf. fouled-up, Inf balled-up, bungled.
-v. 5. keep secret, keep dark, keep it all in, keep quiet about, conceal; hush up, Inf. cover up, Sl. keep the lid on; dissemble, cloud, becloud, befog, screen, mask, cloak, veil, curtain, keep in the shade or dark.
hulk, n. 1. derelict, ruin, skeleton, shell, wreck, shipwreck; tumbledown building, eyesore, debris.
2. oaf, lout, lubber, Sl. clumsy ox, Inf. bull in a china shop, Sl. klutz.
hulking, adj. unwieldly, cumbersome, cumbrous, awkward, gross, hulky, bulky; clumsy, ungainly, ungraceful, lubberly, lumpish; unmanageable, incommodious, difficult to handle, ill-proportioned; massive, ponderous, weighty, overgrown, towering; uncouth, loutish, graceless, inelegant.
hull, n. 1. shell, rind, skin, peel, Bot. epicarp; shuck, cornhusk, legume, peasecod, peapod; husk, pod, case, capsule, theca, pericarp, Bot. testa, bur; cover, coat, crust.
2. body, framework, frame, skeleton; form, structure, casing.