howff
/haʊf
/noun Scottish
A favourite meeting place or haunt, especially a pub.He was well known for carousing, of course, and described the Globe Inn in the town as his favourite howff....
- FEW rockets have had such a spectacular send-off as Hamish Henderson, folklorist, poet and habitue of howffs, who died just over a week ago, aged 82.
- James Boswell merrily recorded a typical night out in Edinburgh's teeming howffs in 1772.
Origin
Mid 16th century (as the name of the main burial ground in Dundee): of unknown origin.
- have a word in someone's ear
- have bats in the (or one's) belfry
- have-been
- have been around
- have been around the block (a few times)
- have been known to do something
- have been there before
- have blood on one's hands
- have clean hands
- have designs on
- have every confidence in
- have everything
- have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for
- have (got) it in one (to do something)
- have (got) it made
- have (got) no idea