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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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
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
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 would sit an' consider his sermons' and inded it's a bieldy bit.
From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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
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