Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Manners; behavior.
- Foolish or idle talk. Also
haivers . - noun Same as
haver-grass .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
haver . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
haver .
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Examples
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Someone "havers" (hesitates) at the door of a hospital.
Emperor of Nostalgia Coetzee, J.M. 2002
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The casual-sex havers were every bit as happy and healthy as the kids who were only doing it with a committed partner.
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The casual-sex havers were every bit as happy and healthy as the kids who were only doing it with a committed partner.
Boing Boing 2009
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The casual-sex havers were every bit as happy and healthy as the kids who were only doing it with a committed partner.
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But because Obama did not spend the occasion at Arlington National Cemetery, a select group of American cow-havers had cows, and claimed that honoring American troops in Illinois was "offensive".
President Obama Has 'Few Options' In Commemorating 9/11... Really? 2010
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Now Jessie is the official spokesperson for fling-havers everywhere — Cole and Jessie are doing hot, naughty things in the very same places she swore she'd avoid.
Archive 2007-10-01 Nalini Singh 2007
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‘Whisht, woman! whisht!’ said the blind man, angrily, shaking his locks; ‘dinna deave the gentleman wi’ your havers.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Since we no longer produce anything here - because all the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas - and for the most part only work as paper-pushers, bean-counters, and coffee-bar gods [unless we're actual mechanics, plumbers, IT guys, or construction workers], the line between the iPod-havers and the iPod-haver-nots has grown wider with the crash.
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Some of those anti-Semite, anti-Christian, anti-having Christmas like they used to havers will say that Bill gave another ultimatum on January 24th the TV Factor.
O'Reilly's COUNTDOWN Reaches -0-: Will Bill Cut & Run Today? 2007
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He came to the great hedge and he thrust his way through it, and though the thorns of the brambles scored him deeply and tore threads from his wonderful suit, and though burs and goosegrass and havers caught and clung to him, he did not care.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
chained_bear commented on the word havers
"'Christ, woman! I'm deviled to death wi' Duncan's havers and Ninian's pranks—and why did ye not tell me he'd been fighting with Barlow?'"
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 670
January 23, 2010