It’s a neologism invented by Lewis Carroll nearly 150 years ago and means Grumpy, crotchety, ill-tempered or as Carroll put it “uffish is a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish." Carroll invented the word and used it in the
poem Jabberwocky which appears in the book “Through The Looking Glass”. It’s still used occasionally in
the South West of
England.