doover

American  

[doo-ver] / ˈdu vər /

noun

Australian Slang.

1. thingamajig.

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Etymology

Origin of doover

First recorded 1940–45; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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

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)