单词 | howff |
释义 | howffn. Scottish. A place of resort; a haunt, a resort. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] to-draughta1400 repair1423 repairing1487 resorting place1525 common house1537 resort1565 place (also house) of repairc1595 purlieu1611 howff1711 crib1819 joint1821 hang-out1852 costa1964 1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun vii When we were weary'd at the gowff, Then Maggy Johnstoun's was our howff. 1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' in R. Chambers Misc. Pop. Scottish Poems (1862) 34 This is the houff of ane and a'. 1796 R. Burns Let. Apr. (2003) II. 378 The Globe Tavern here..for these many years has been my Howff. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. xiii. 192 The corby left her houf in the rock. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 60 Those who frequented this howf, being generally elderly men. 1950 John o' London's Weekly 24 Nov. 617/1 He was just seventeen.., when he began to haunt the howffs (drinking-places) of Edinburgh's underworld. 1957 R. W. Clark & E. C. Pyatt Mountaineering in Brit. ii. xi. 196 The crags were still relatively inaccessible—in spite of the use of boat and motor-car in conjunction with tents, howffs, or bivouacs. Derivatives howff v. (intransitive) to have one's haunt. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > haunt or resort [verb (intransitive)] floatc1315 haunta1375 repaira1393 resort1432 abraid?a1439 accustomc1475 use1488 frequent1577 howff1808 1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To houff, to take shelter. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 106 Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1711 |
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