howff

American  

[houf, ouf, hohf, ohf] / haʊf, aʊf, hoʊf, oʊf /

noun

1. an abode; a familiar shelter or resort.

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verb (used without object)

1. to reside.

2. to visit a familiar haunt.

Etymology

Origin of howff

First recorded in 1555–65; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

There the high-class advocate received his clients, and the physician his patients—each practitioner having his peculiar howff.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

The office-bearers and 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 Bridge.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It was a great howff o’ Mr. Soulis’s, onyway; there he wad sit an’ consider his sermons; an’ indeed it’s a bieldy bit.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Yonder, overlooking Tibbie Shiel's "cosy beild"—a howff of the Noctes coterie—stands the solitary white figure of the beloved Shepherd as Christopher North's prophetic soul felt that it must be some day.

From In the Border Country by W. S.

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. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis