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单词 howff
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howffn.

Brit. /haʊf/, U.S. /haʊf/, Scottish English /hʌʊf/
Forms: Also houf(f, howf, hauf.
Etymology: Known from 16th cent.: origin uncertain.Howff is the name of the chief burial ground at Dundee, originally the garden or orchard of the Franciscan Friary, which was granted to the town as a burial ground by Queen Mary on 11 Sept. 1564, and was also for more than two centuries the meeting-place of the Trades. The name Houf appears as early as 1565, but it is not certain whether this arose from its use as ‘a place of resort’, or was the original name, connected with Dutch and German hof, court, yard. In the latter case the general Scotch use has to be accounted for.1565 Burgh Rec. 13 Apr. in A. Maxwell Old Dundee (1891) 179 Ordainit that what person that ever beis apprehendit louping in our the dykes of the Houf sal pay..eight shillings.1884 A. Maxwell Hist. Old Dundee 208 In 1611 the word was adopted in the Council register, and the gathering place of the crafts is subsequently denominated ‘the Howff’ instead of ‘the common burial’.
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).
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