Words & TermsFood and drink
horse's doover
Also: horses doover, horse's doovers
A hors d'oeuvre, represented by a jocular Australian pronunciation.
In a sentence
They put out a few horse's doovers before dinner.
Where it came from
A jocular phonetic reshaping of French hors d'oeuvre into the English-looking phrase horse's doover. Macquarie independently dates horse's doover as Australian slang since the 1970s and explains it as a jocular pronunciation of hors d'oeuvre.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australia-wide
- Use today
- Current but jocular