howff

On his journey home to Ayrshire, he passed through Dumfries (where he later lived), the site of the Globe Inn, which he described as his “favourite howff” (or “inn”).

robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Hoff, howff, haaf, and haven, are all modifications of the same word.

Chapter I 1917

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.

Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

Harm himself he did, for you could not associate with Jock M'Craw and the like without drinking in every howff you came across.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

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.

Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

Senatus of the University of Cramond -- an educational institution in which I have the honour to be Professor of Nonsense -- meet to do honour to our friend Icarus, at the old-established howff, Cramond

St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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

Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Excise business, and of protracted lingerings at a certain _howff_, place of resort, called the Globe Tavern, which boded no good.

Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852

"Julius 'howff," at Stenhouse (_Stone-house_) on the Carron, and what was its use and object?

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

` ` Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither?

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822