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Haver vs Paver - What's the difference?

haver | paver |

As nouns the difference between haver and paver

is that haver is the cereal oats while paver is a flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.

As a verb haver

is to hem and haw.

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 ----

    paver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
  • One who paves; one who lays pavement.