horse's doovers

短语

词形变化

only 复数

别名

horses' doovers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    hors d'oeuvres

    澳大利亚 英国 幽默 仅复数 俚语

    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.”

词源

Fanciful corruption of hors d'oeuvres. Apparently British/Australian prison or POW slang.

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