howf

plural howfs · alternative howff

1. ScotlandarchaicA frequent meeting place; a haunt; often specifically, a drinking-house or tavern.

   [A]s this Scotsman's howf lies right under your lee, why, take any port in a storm.

   1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 60

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   ‘He stayed at home at nights and devoted himself to his books. He even missed a few week-ends in the High Street howffs.’

   1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 164

2. ScotlandarchaicA rudimentary shelter, especially one used by a mountaineer; a hut.

present singular third person howfs · participle present howfing · participle past howfed · past howfed · alternative howff

1. ScotlandarchaicintransitiveTo frequent or resort to a place; to haunt.