Miffed

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Has someone annoyed you? Use this word.

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0:00.0	Hi, Sean here. Thank you for downloading the English we speak.
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0:32.4	to the English we speak.
0:34.0	The English we speak.
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0:40.0	Hello and welcome'm Rob.
0:45.0	I'm Rob.
0:48.0	So Rob, you don't look so happy.
0:51.0	I'm uh, I'm okay. I thought you were off to a rock concert for your
0:56.1	birthday this weekend. Yeah, I was. I love rock music. Oh, what happened?
1:01.5	Well, I booked my ticket a month ago. It wasn't cheap. Three of my friends said they were coming too, but they just told me they forgot to book the tickets, and now there are none left. Oh what a pain I'm sorry. Yeah I'm a bit
1:16.8	miffed. I'm not surprised. Rob sorry to mention this while you're feeling upset.
1:24.0	Yes.
1:25.0	Do you mind if I use MIFT as our word today?
1:29.0	Yeah, okay then.
1:31.0	Okay.
1:32.0	So as you might have worked out, to feel miffed is to feel frustrated or annoyed, usually because of the behavior of other people.
1:41.5	It's what Rob is feeling right now because his friends didn't book
1:46.0	tickets to a concert with him. Let's just give him a minute while we listen to
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