The side of the face, cheek, or temple; a Scottish English variant of haffet.
From Scottish English dialect, related to haffet, with the same unclear but likely medieval Scandinavian or Germanic origin.
The variation between 'haffit' and 'haffet' shows us that before dictionaries and standardized spelling, the same word could be spelled multiple ways based on how people pronounced their dialect.
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