Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any place of resort; a haunt, as a drinking-house.
- To resort frequently to a place; hang around.
Wiktionary
- n. Scotland tavern; public house
Examples
“On his journey home to Ayrshire, he passed through Dumfries (where he later lived), the site of the Globe Inn, which he described as his “favourite howff” (or “inn”).”
robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
“Hoff, howff, haaf, and haven, are all modifications of the same word.”
“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.”
“Harm himself he did, for you could not associate with Jock M'Craw and the like without drinking in every howff you came across.”
“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.”
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
“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”
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
“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.”
“Excise business, and of protracted lingerings at a certain _howff_, place of resort, called the Globe Tavern, which boded no good.”
“Julius 'howff," at Stenhouse (_Stone-house_) on the Carron, and what was its use and object?”
“` ` Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘howff’.
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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household words
oikonomia, domain, menage, mansion, manor, manse, demesne, menial, arsenal, haft, decumbence, katoikountes and 68 more...
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wytukaze hau5 Mar 19, 2009
garyth123 a meeting place, eg a public house Dec 26, 2008