Sharper vs Shaver - What's the difference?
sharper | shaver |
(sharp)
(dated) a swindler; a cheat; a professional gambler who makes his living by cheating.
One who shaves.
A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
(slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
* Knolles
(colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
* Charles Dickens
As nouns the difference between sharper and shaver
is that sharper is a swindler; a cheat; a professional gambler who makes his living by cheating while shaver is one who shaves.As an adjective sharper
is comparative of sharp.sharper
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Adjective
(head)Noun
(wikipedia sharper) (en noun)Synonyms
* chiseler * spivAnagrams
*shaver
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Noun
(en noun)- (Jonathan Swift)
- By these shavers the Turks were stripped.
- As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver , I am on a chase in the name of the king.