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howfing Sc. ‘A clumsy, awkward, senseless person’ (Jam.). Also attrib.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxv. 24 My new spanit howffing [Bannatyne MS. howphyn] fra the sowk. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 586 Alace! that Scotland had no schame, To send sic howfing carles from hame! 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xii, That aul', greedy, sneeshinie howffin. |