Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any place of resort; a haunt, as a drinking-house.
- To resort frequently to a place; hang around.
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- noun Scotland
tavern ;public house
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Examples
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On his journey home to Ayrshire, he passed through Dumfries (where he later lived), the site of the Globe Inn, which he described as his “favourite howff” (or “inn”).
robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Hoff, howff, haaf, and haven, are all modifications of the same word.
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It was a great howff, o 'Mr. Soulis's onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons; and inded it's a bieldy bit.
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Harm himself he did, for you could not associate with Jock M'Craw and the like without drinking in every howff you came across.
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It was a great howff, o 'Mr. Soulis's onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons 'and inded it's a bieldy bit.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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Senatus of the University of Cramond -- an educational institution in which I have the honour to be Professor of Nonsense -- meet to do honour to our friend Icarus, at the old-established howff, Cramond
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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It was a great howff o 'Mr. Soulis's, onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons; and indeed it's a bieldy bit.
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Excise business, and of protracted lingerings at a certain _howff_, place of resort, called the Globe Tavern, which boded no good.
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"Julius 'howff," at Stenhouse (_Stone-house_) on the Carron, and what was its use and object?
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` ` Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither?
garyth123 commented on the word howff
a meeting place, eg a public house
December 26, 2008
wytukaze commented on the word howff
hau5
March 19, 2009