effervescible: (sailorjaina)
Jaina ([personal profile] effervescible) wrote2001-07-05 02:59 am
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Good question, Val

In the Proclaimers' "500 Miles," what exactly does "havering" mean? Is it some weird Irish/Scottish/Whatever thing we just don't understand?

Havering! It's what's for dinner!

[identity profile] ex-katido114.livejournal.com 2001-07-05 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
haver \Ha"ver\, v. i. [Etymol. uncertain.] To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ? 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

In other words, it's what you do in your LJ! ~.^

I luvs my mesume! Honey, put down the pointy stick. Just put it on the ground... no, don't attack Mommy with the stick... eeeeeeek!

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