Lexicographical Neighbors of Howfing
Literary usage of Howfing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"... qv howfing, adj. Mean, shabby, having a beggarly appearance. ... Allace, that
Scotland had no schäme, To Bead sic howfing carles from hame Legend Bp. 31 ..."
2. Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation by Robert Sempill, Thomas Churchyard (1891)
"Alace ! that Scotland had no schame, 585 To send sic howfing carles from hame !
Now or embassador is boune With bag and bagage off the toun : All nyt in ..."
3. Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation by Robert Sempill, Thomas Churchyard (1891)
"Alace ! that Scotland had no schame, 585 To send sic howfing carles from hame!
Now or embassador is boune With bag and bagage off the toun : All ny4 in ..."
4. The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical edited by Robert Anderson (1795)
"... howfing In foreign lamia, and to a barbarous king .' We and our fathers, from
our childhood bred To Witch thr cruel victor's eye, tn dread The arbitrary ..."
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