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
Broddington wor a single chap an lived bi hissen, but Clarkson had a wife an some bairns, an shoo wor a wife an noa mistak! for shoo'd tongue enuff for hauf a duzzen.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
A verra little would buy the hauf o't.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
For, thinks aw, aw'l let him see at awm noa new beginner,—tho to spaik th' truth aw dooant think aw'd iver smok'd hauf a duzzen i'mi life.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
Fra Hawarth tahn the other day, Bi’t rout o’ Thornton height, Joe Hobble an’ his better hauf, Went inta Bradford streight.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis
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