howf

A frequent meeting place; a haunt; often specifically, a drinking-house or tavern.

Noun

  1. A frequent meeting place; a haunt; often specifically, a drinking-house or tavern.
    • [A]s this Scotsman's howf lies right under your lee, why, take any port in a storm. - 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and...
    • ‘He stayed at home at nights and devoted himself to his books. He even missed a few week-ends in the High Street howffs.’ - 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 164:
  2. A rudimentary shelter, especially one used by a mountaineer; a hut.

Origin

Borrowed from Scots howf (noun, verb).

Forms

howfs howff

Verb

  1. To frequent or resort to a place; to haunt.

Forms

howfs howfing howfed howff

Related

hovel