Shaver vs Haver - What's the difference?
shaver | haver |
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
(British) To hem and haw
* 1988 , , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 154
(Scotland), Usually haiver . To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter; talking nonsense; to babble
* 1988 ,
* 2004 James Campbell, "Boswell and Mrs. Miller", in The Genius of Language (ed. Wendy Lesser), page 194
One who has, possesses etc.
* 1608 ,
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)- (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.
References
* *Anagrams
*haver
English
Etymology 1
.Verb
(en verb)- This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered , he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.
- And if I haver''', yeah I know I’m gonna be / I’m gonna be the man who’s '''havering to you.
- She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."
Etymology 2
.Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- 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.