howff

[ houf, ouf; hohf, ohf ]

noun

1. an abode; a familiar shelter or resort.

verb (used without object)

1. to reside.
2. to visit a familiar haunt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of howff¹

First recorded in 1555–65; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

It was a great howff, o' Mr. Soulis's onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons; and inded it's a bieldy bit.

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

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Logan nipped the guard of his arm in heavy playfulness and led him to the Howff.

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The company had not long left the Howff, as Blane's public-house was called, when the trumpets and kettle-drums sounded.

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Now when his too apprehensive nerves were frightened by bugbears in his lonely room he could be off to the Howff and escape them.

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