Barber vs Barbarous - What's the difference?
barber | barbarous |
A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
to cut the hair or beard of (a person).
(US, slang) To chatter, talk.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 29:
Not classical or pure.
uncivilized, uncultured
Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
As a noun barber
is a person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.As a verb barber
is to cut the hair or beard of (a person).As an adjective barbarous is
not classical or pure.barber
English
Noun
(wikipedia barber) (en noun)Synonyms
* hairdresser, hair-dresser * hairstylist, hair-stylistDerived terms
* barber's itch * barber pole / barber's pole * barbershop * barber surgeonVerb
(en verb)- ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’
barbarous
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) barbarouseAdjective
(en adjective)- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - (1673)
