havers
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of havers
Plural of haver nonsense, akin to haver
Example Sentences
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Professional and amateur opinion havers had not only an occasion to vent about a salient class issue, but a new vocabulary for it.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2024
Nonsense, woman! ye're as bad as him," was the reply of his father; "wherefore would ye encourage the callant in his havers?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Aunt Margaret has spared no pains to make her clean and tidy and saving——" "Hoots havers!
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
I'll teach him scaring folks out o' their wits, an' wastin' good bedclothes on such havers!
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
I marvel ye daur speak of Captain Angus—and ye wi' your havers and your jigs, while yer husband's far awa', and your bairn sick!
From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.
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