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havers

American  
[hey-verz] / ˈheɪ vərz /

interjection

Chiefly Scot.
  1. nonsense; poppycock.


Etymology

Origin of havers

Plural of haver nonsense, akin to haver

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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

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

To do the duty of a duces tecum we have a diligence against havers.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

Ruth: I always fancied she’d turn up again, In spite of all her raivelling—Michael, you mind, About the mutch with frills, and all thon havers?

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

"Naething mair? havers, man, ye dinna mean tae say they pack beds an' tables in boxes; a' doot there 's a truck missin'."

From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Maclaren, Ian

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