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howff Sc.|haʊf, hɒʊf|
Also houf(f, howf, hauf.
[Known from 16th c.: 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 orig. name, connected with Du. and Ger. hof, court, yard. In the latter case the general Scotch use has to be accounted for.
1565(Apr. 13) Burgh Recds. in Maxwell Old Dundee 179 Ordainit that what person that ever beis apprehendit louping in our the dykes of the Houf sal pay..eight shillings. 1884Maxwell 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’.]
A place of resort; a haunt, a resort.
1711Ramsay Maggy Johnstoun vii, When we were weary'd at the gowff, Then Maggy Johnstoun's was our howff. 1776C. Keith Farmer's Ha' in Chambers Pop. Hum. Scot. Poems (1862) 34 This is the houff of ane and a'. 1796Burns Lett. to Thomson Apr. Wks. (Globe) 562 The Globe Tavern here..for these many years has been my howff. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake, Kilmeny xxiv, The corby left her houf in the rock. 1862Burton Bk. Hunter (1863) 60 Those who frequented this howf, being generally elderly men. 1950John o' London's 24 Nov. 617/1 He was just seventeen.., when he began to haunt the howffs (drinking-places) of Edinburgh's underworld. 1957Clark & 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.
Hence howff v. intr., to have one's haunt.
1808–18Jamieson, To houff, to take shelter. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xvii, Where was't that Robertson and you were used to howff thegither? |