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howff
[ houf, ouf; hohf, ohf ]
noun
- an abode; a familiar shelter or resort.
verb (used without object)
- to reside.
- to visit a familiar haunt.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of howff1
First recorded in 1555–65; origin uncertain
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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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