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Shaver vs Haver - What's the difference?

shaver | haver |

As nouns the difference between shaver and haver

is that shaver is one who shaves while haver is the cereal oats.

As a verb haver is

to hem and haw.

shaver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (Jonathan Swift)
  • One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
  • * Knolles
  • By these shavers the Turks were stripped.
  • (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver , I am on a chase in the name of the king.

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    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 ----