druther
verbEtymology A corruption of I‘d rather or ‘d rather.
- I druther stay home today.
- We druther go swimming than go to school.
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- The old gentleman was for going along with me, but I said no, I could drive the horse myself, and I druther he wouldn't take no trouble about me.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- "He's no slouch at dog-breakin', that's wot I say," one of the men on the wall cried enthusiastically. / "Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays," was the reply of the driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the horses.1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 31: