havers

[ hey-verz ]

/ ˈheɪ vərz /

interjection Chiefly Scot.

nonsense; poppycock.

Nearby words

Origin of havers

plural of haver nonsense, akin to haver

haver

[ hey-ver ]

/ ˈheɪ vər /

verb (used without object) Chiefly British.

to equivocate; vacillate.

Origin of haver

First recorded in 1780–90; origin uncertain

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Examples from the Web for havers

He believes in them, and uses them to the destruction of the havers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850|Various
"Lay him down flat and stop your havers," ordered the business-like, embryo medicine man.
Greyfriars Bobby|Eleanor Atkinson
Miss Rose is not, nor apparently desires to be, and Mr. Havers returns to the foot-race.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, October 19 1895|Various
You are not heeding John's havers about your name being mixed up with the affair in a poor Sassanach inn-keeper's story?
Gilian The Dreamer|Neil Munro

Havers, mannie; there's no' onybody named for an auld buryin' groond.
Greyfriars Bobby|Eleanor Atkinson

British Dictionary definitions for havers

haver

/ (ˈheɪvə) /

verb (intr) British

to dither

Scot and Northern English dialect to talk nonsense; babble

noun

(usually plural) Scot nonsense

Word Origin for haver

C18: of unknown origin

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Word Origin and History for havers

haver

n.1

"oats," Northern English, late 13c., probably from Old Norse hafre, from Proto-Germanic *habron- (cf. Old Norse hafri, Old Saxon havoro, Dutch haver, Old High German habaro, German Haber, Hafer). Buck suggests it is perhaps literally "goat-food" and compares Old Norse hafr "he-goat." "Haver is a common word in the northern countries for oats." [Johnson]

haver

n.2

"owner, possessor," late 14c., agent noun from have.

Medicine definitions for havers

Havers

[ hā′vərz, hăv′ərz ]

Clopton 1655?-1702

English physician and anatomist known for his studies of the minute structure of bone.