hauf
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Speeding thru the snaw,on ma one guid wooden tray,doon Glebe Street I go,greetin' hauf the way.Bun on big heid stings,body warmer awfie ticht –but whit a nicht to wheep and wheesht!A bag-pipe blast the nicht!
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2010
An Mally lass," he said agean, "Tak heed o' my direction: Th' schooil owes us hauf a craan—aw mean My share o'th' last collection.—
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John
You canna risk holding them up when maybe the bunch we’re after are comin’ along hauf a mile ahin’.”
From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert
He mud as weel ha' just whistled jigs to a mile-stoop; aat coom iverybody's stock, an' i' less nor hauf a minit ther wor sich a hullabaloo i' that shop as aw niver heeared afoor.
From Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings by Hartley, John
When it had getten abaght hauf way, th' stee began to bend a gooid bit.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
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