druther
/ˈdrʌðə
/North American informal
noun (usually one's druthers)
One’s preference in a matter: if I had my druthers, I would prefer to be a writer...
- Given my druthers I'd re-edit episode 1, for that matter, but that won't happen.
- I'll take ‘Message In a Bottle’ or ‘Stand or Fall,’ given my druthers.
- Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all.
adverb
Rather; by preference.
Origin
Late 19th century: from a US regional pronunciation of I'd rather, contraction of would rather.
- one-trip
- one-two
- one-two-three
- one-two-three-four
- one up
- one-upman
- one-upmanship
- one-upness
- one-uppance
- one-use
- one-valued
- on every hand
- one-way
- one way and another (or one way or another)
- one way or the other (or one way and another)
- onewhile
- one-woman
- one-woman show
- one-world
- one-worlder
- one-worldism
- one-year-old
- one–many
- one–one
- onfall