doover
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of doover
First recorded 1940–45; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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I wish Clutterham had been here—that's the head gardener—and here he would have been of course, as I told you, but for his son's being horse doover with a fever, poor fellow!
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
So we comes to the Masonic Hall, which is all lights, and band, and fashionable persons rigged out in fancy dress, dancing the horse doover.
From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger
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