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
Man, man, there's no nae doubt at ye lauoh at havers, an' there's mony 'at lauchs 'at your clipper-clapper, but they're no Thrums fowk, and they canna' lauch richt.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 by Various
Ay, ay—I recollect now some of the havers o' Boll's about the Blounts,—Martha and Theresa, I think you call them.
From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley
And some work is deefficult hushin', There'd be havers and chaff: 'Twull be best, sir, for you to be fushin' And me wi' the gaff.
From Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir
Troth, to-morrow's a Sunday, an' not to be disturbed o' none such havers.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
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