Barber vs Hairdressing - What's the difference?
barber | hairdressing |
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:
The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.
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*:There was also hairdressing': '''hairdressing''', too, really was ' hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
As a proper noun barber
is .As a noun hairdressing is
the washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.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.’