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

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howff

Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither?

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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 would sit an’ consider his sermons; and indeed it’s a bieldy bit. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.