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  • noun Plural form of hoose.

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Examples

  • And luik upo 'this bit hoosie,' at I ca 'my ain, and they a' helpit me to bigg, but as a lean-to til the hoose at hame, for I'm no awa frae it or them -- jist as that hoose and this hoose and a 'the hooses are a' jist but bairnies 'hooses, biggit by themsels aboot the big flure o' thy kitchie and i 'the neuks o' the same -- wi 'yer ain truffs and stanes and divots, sir.'

    Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

  • Butt no wun new, an i didid nawt answer wen dey awl yelled “Kaaaaafffffeeeee” sew dey foughted I wuz losted or had falleded inna wun ub da beeg holes furr da noo hooses being bilt awl round us.

    Suddenly, Squeeker felt much - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Look at the hooses we live in; the gentry wadna 'keep their dogs in them.

    The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

  • London there are mair wee hooses; folk don't live in apartments and flats as much as they do in New York.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • And in their een, dinna doot it, the old, grey fronts o 'the hooses were green trees.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • And a 'the time, God help us, we were like those folk that dwell in their wee hooses on the slopes of Vesuvius -- puir folk and wee hooses that may be swept awa' any day by an eruption of the volcano.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • I gae a walkin 'in the city, and the walls o' the hooses press in upon me as if they would be squeezing the breath frae ma body.

    Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910

  • He'll burn their hooses, take their very claes, and strip them to the very sark.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • I mind o 'the Leddy Partan an' Mistress Girnigo, the king's jeweller's wife haein 'a fair even-doon fecht a' aboot wha was to hae the pick o 'the hooses on the stair.

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • Then he had a bit crack in twa-three o 'the hooses wi' the auld wives that wasna at the wark, though he has nae mair members in the clauchan, them bein 'a' Auld

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

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