Definition of "avoir" []

• An abbreviation of avoirdupois.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "To have a difficulty is not, as in French, avoir de la difficulté but avoir de la misère."
• "But most crucially of all, the French was very bad, and consistently formed the perfect tense with the verb "être" rather than the verb "avoir"."
• "It's only poor 'avoir' which has to shift for itself."