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Barber vs Hairdressing - What's the difference?

barber | hairdressing |

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)
  • A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
  • A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
  • Synonyms

    * hairdresser, hair-dresser * hairstylist, hair-stylist

    Derived terms

    * barber's itch * barber pole / barber's pole * barbershop * barber surgeon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to cut the hair or beard of (a person).
  • (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
  • * 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, p. 29:
  • ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

    hairdressing

    English

    Noun

  • The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.
  • *
  • *: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;.