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howff

/houf, ouf; hohf, ohf/US // haʊf, aʊf; hoʊf, oʊf //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an abode; a familiar shelter or resort.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reside.
    • : to visit a familiar haunt.

Examples

  • It was a great howff, o' Mr. Soulis's onyway; there he would sit an' consider his sermons; and inded it's a bieldy bit.

  • There the high-class advocate received his clients, and the physician his patients—each practitioner having his peculiar howff.

  • Logan nipped the guard of his arm in heavy playfulness and led him to the Howff.

  • The company had not long left the Howff, as Blane's public-house was called, when the trumpets and kettle-drums sounded.

  • Now when his too apprehensive nerves were frightened by bugbears in his lonely room he could be off to the Howff and escape them.