horse's doovers

== English == === Etymology === Fanciful corruption of hors d'oeuvres. Apparently British/Australian prison or POW slang. === Noun === horse's doovers pl (plural only) (UK, Australia, humorous, 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.”