Definitions for howff

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Spelling: [houf, ouf; hohf, ohf]
IPA: /haʊf, aʊf; hoʊf, oʊf/

Howff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in howff (ffhow).

Definitions for howff

noun

  1. an abode; a familiar shelter or resort.

verb (used without object)

  1. to reside.
  2. to visit a familiar haunt.

Origin of howff

First recorded in 1555-65; origin uncertain

Examples for howff

The howff seemed full and frequented as if possessed of all its old celebrity.

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

He never opened his books of an evening but he thought to himself, "I wonder what they're doing at the howff to-night?"

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

When they left the howff they went to Gillespie's and drank more, and after that they roamed about the town.

So now, every night, he saw the cosy companions in their howff, and shivered at his own isolation.

"'Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est,'" said Tarmillan, who was on one of his rare visits to the howff.

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

Last winter, however, it was simply a weak need for companionship that drew him to the howff.

At the end of ten minutes he would be gaping across the table, and wondering what they were doing at the howff.

Word Value for howff
Scrable

17

Words with friends

16

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