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
Well, awm soa glad it worn't awr Alick 'at mashed that winder," "Soa am aw, awd rayther it had been one o' mi own bi th' hauf.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
"Why, lumphead!" sed th' chap, "couldn't ta put one hauf into one, an' tother into tother?"
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
Why, aw could whip raand hauf a duzzen sich like to my thinkin'!
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
Aw havn't tell'd yo hauf o'th' queer tricks he's noated for yet.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
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