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What does uffish mean?

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Adjective
  1. (nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered
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And as in uffish thought we stood The mersey ones with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood And burbled as they came!
And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!
Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.

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