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    [Plural noun]  | "druth*ers" | \ ˈdrə-t͟hərz \


    1: free choice : preference —used especially in the phrase if one had one's druthers


    Origin: 1870 ;

     Druther, alteration of would rather;

    [Idiom]  | "if one had one's druthers" 


    1: if one could choose what to do

    [Plural noun]  | "druthers" 


    1: the power, right, or opportunity to choose;


      * e.g., " ... If I had my druthers, I'd stay home tonight "



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     [ "druthers" ]

    1: (noun) way or preference

      * e.g.,  ... If he had his druthers, I suspect he'd still be in bed. 


     [ "druthers" ]

    2: Generally used in the plural. Especially in the phrase:


     [ "druthers" ]

    3: "If (person) had (posessive adjective) druthers"


     [ "druthers" ]

    4: Probably originally derived from a contraction of "would rather".

     [ "druthers" ]

    1: A noun meaning the opportunity to be doing something else. Derived from "I'd rather...." morphing into "Ah'd ruther..." down South.

      * e.g.,  ... "If I had mah druthers, Ah'd ruther do nothin' at all." Great song from great film "Li'l Abner". 

     [ "druthers" ]

    1: Preference

      * e.g.,  ... If I had my druthers, I'd be sailing on the Bay with a beer in my fist right now instead of doing the f*&@%$! month-end stock-taking. 

     [ "Druther's" ]

    1: Used in the U.S. as a statment for prefference.

      * e.g.,  ... If I had my druther's, I would still be in bed. 


     [ "Druther's" ]

    2: Uses in a lazy-speech as a combination of the words "I would rather."

     [ "Druther" ]

    1: Short for Druther's, the word Druther is a unique old old school slang term stated in a sentence indicating the person who is using the words thoughts at a given time.

      * e.g.,  ... TH: Yo Jer when you think they'll come out with a new Snowball Express?! JH: I druther in about a year or two 

     [ "Druthers" ]

    1: A slang term for a womans vaginal lips.

      * e.g.,  ... Friend 1 - "Hey man was she any good?" 

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