mahoffi

English

Noun

mahoffi (plural mahoffis)

1. Alternative form of mihaffa.
   • 1745, William Beawes, A Journey from Aleppo to Basra... in The Desert Route to India, pp. 8–9 & 12:

     For a servant is always paid half a camel load and for ourselves that went in a double cradle (in their language called mahoffi) we paid fifty dollars... Our mahoffi terribly fatigues us, and was certainly intended for such who have only no legs or can bestow them independant of their bodies... the mahoffi is but a trumpery machine, and a wheelbarrow in comparison to a princely carriage.