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Slaver vs Shaver - What's the difference?

slaver | shaver |

As nouns the difference between slaver and shaver

is that slaver is saliva running from the mouth; drool or slaver can be a person engaged in the slave trade while shaver is one who shaves.

As a verb slaver

is to drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.

slaver

English

Etymology 1

From medieval English slaveren, of Scandinavian origin, akin to or derived from (etyl) slafra "to slaver", probably imitative

Verb

(en verb)
  • To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
  • To fawn.
  • To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
  • To be besmeared with saliva.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    * (emit saliva ): drool, slobber

    Noun

    (-)
  • saliva running from the mouth; drool
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

    Etymology 2

    From the verb slave 'enslave, traffic in slaves'

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person engaged in the slave trade
  • white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
  • (nautical) a ship used to transport slaves

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    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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