hauf
Britishnoun
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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
He tried to shaat "puttates!" but he nobbut gate hauf way throo, for when he'd sed "put!" he had'nt breeath left to say "tates."
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley
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 John Hartley
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 Robert Watson
He doesn't think hauf enuff, or else he'd nooan goa on as he does!
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by John Hartley
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