Haver vs Haler - What's the difference?
haver | haler |
As verbs the difference between haver and haler is that haver is while haler is to tan (cause skin to go brown).
haver English
Etymology 1
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Verb
( en verb)
(British) To hem and haw
* 1988 , , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 154
- This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered , he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.
(Scotland), Usually haiver . To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter; talking nonsense; to babble
* 1988 ,
- And if I haver''', yeah I know I’m gonna be / I’m gonna be the man who’s '''havering to you.
* 2004 James Campbell, "Boswell and Mrs. Miller", in The Genius of Language (ed. Wendy Lesser), page 194
- She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."
Etymology 2
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Noun
( en noun)
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The cereal oats.
Etymology 3
Noun
( en noun)
One who has, possesses etc.
* 1608 ,
- It is held / That valour is the chiefest virtue, and / Most dignifies the haver : if it be, / The man I speak of cannot in the world / Be singly counterpoised.
Synonyms
* holder
* possessor
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haler English
Adjective
(head)
Comparative form of hale.
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