howff

• “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.”

  Chapter I

• “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.”

  Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories

• “Harm himself he did, for you could not associate with Jock M'Craw and the like without drinking in every howff you came across.”

  The House with the Green Shutters

• “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.”

  Merry Men

• “Excise business, and of protracted lingerings at a certain _howff_, place of resort, called the Globe Tavern, which boded no good.”

  Robert Burns

• “Julius 'howff," at Stenhouse (_Stone-house_) on the Carron, and what was its use and object?”

  Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1

• “` ` Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither?”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

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