HOWKEN—Howken aboot fer owt he can git. It’s yan ’at’s allus glooaren aboot him fer a good bargen, an’ owt else.
HOWK—“Howks, grubs, an’ worms fra under t’ under breeas,” says Whiteheed; it means ta grobble for them, an’ howk them oot.
HOWK—To turn things over when searching.
“Like otter dogs they hunt oor beaynes,
Rive up the cairns, howk through the reaynes,
Where e’er they find a heap o’ steaynes,
Like swines they’re reuten in.”
Anthony Whitehead.
HOWK—To scoop out; howk a whol; howk t’ inside oot.
HOB—T’ guardian imp o’ t’ fireside, hob, hood, or t’ rannel baulk. It is recorded of one of these who made himself so familiar that the family decided to remove out of his way, and one of the family on the eve of the removal met with him in the byre and asked what he was up to there, got for a reply, “Oh, nowt; nobbut greasen mi shoon; we’re gaan ta skift ta-morn.” Hob was gaan ano, seea they stopped on.