howff
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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to reside.
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to visit a familiar haunt.
Etymology
Origin of howff
First recorded in 1555–65; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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He hadna a yearly income like Thomas Elliot; and, strange to say, he got the blame of gieing him a howff at Luckie Riddle's.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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.
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 William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
The Crook Inn was a noted "howff" in the angling excursions of Christopher North and the Ettrick Shepherd.
From In the Border Country by W. S.
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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