Druthers

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 Wishes, preferences, or ways.
 * If I had my druthers I’d eat in a restaurant every night of the week.
 * 1) * 1950, Alice Walworth Graham, The Natchez woman,
 * "If you had your druthers—" Old Lew was always saying, "If I had my druthers, gimme one of them there Shevrolics."
 * 1) * 1957, Society of Arts and Crafts, Theatre Arts, Volume 41‎, Page 29,
 * "If I had my druthers," he informs us, "I'druther be myself — not because I'm anythin' special, just because it's convenient."
 * 1) * 1977, Carole Mayhall, From the Heart of a Woman,
 * If I'd had my "druthers," our engagement would not have been two and one half years long. But schooling made our druthers invalid.

Related terms

 * druther

Thesaurus
affinity, alternative, bag, bent, bias, chosen kind, cup of tea, election, fancy, favor, inclination, leaning, option, partiality, particular choice, personal choice, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, proclivity, selection, style, taste, tendency, thing, type

Etymology
A blend of would: or 'd: and rather: in a dialect pronunciation