horse's doovers
horse's doovers · horse's dooverses
Hors d'oeuvresHors d'oeuvres
Meaning
1 senses(Australia, UK, humorous, plural, plural only, slang)Hors d'oeuvres
1982, George MacDonald Fraser, 1993, HarperCollins, page 290, “How! We eat now, together. Horse′s doovers and large snow puddings that make the tongue dead. Joll-ee good!”
2009, Glenn Ickler, A Deadly Vineyard, StirlingHouse Publisher, Pennsylvania, page 109, “ […] He wants us there by 6:30 for cocktails and, as he said it, horse′s doovers.”
Origin
Fanciful corruption of hors d'oeuvres. Apparently British/Australian prison or POW slang.Fanciful corruption of hors d'oeuvres. Apparently British/Australian prison or POW slang.
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Forms
plural: horse's dooverses| Singular | horse's doovers |
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