howff

American  

[houf, ouf, hohf, ohf] / haʊf, aʊf, hoʊf, oʊf /

noun

1. an abode; a familiar shelter or resort.

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verb (used without object)

1. to reside.

2. to visit a familiar haunt.

Etymology

Origin of howff

First recorded in 1555–65; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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 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

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

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 indeed it’s a bieldy bit. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis