shaver

[ shey-ver ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that shaves.

  2. an electric razor.

  1. Informal. a small boy; youngster.

  2. a fellow.

  3. a person who makes close bargains or is extortionate.

Origin of shaver

1
1375–1425; late Middle English; see shave, -er1; compare chip off the old block

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How to use shaver in a sentence

  • I have known him since I was a shaver, and never had a word from him upon the 'one thing needful,' except at church.

    Alone | Marion Harland
  • Anne said she must get home to her baby: not the young shaver I saw; a little girl a month or two old.

  • I'm agreeable; I know how to clean fish as well as the next one; used to do it for mother, when I was a little shaver.

  • "Well, I hope the young shaver won't give his mother too much trouble," he said.

    In a German Pension | Katherine Mansfield
  • As he clumsily tried to unfasten shaver's hood, Mary pushed him aside and with shaking fingers removed the child's wraps.

    A Reversible Santa Claus | Meredith Nicholson

British Dictionary definitions for shaver

shaver

/ (ˈʃeɪvə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that shaves

  2. Also called: electric razor, electric shaver an electrically powered implement for shaving, having reciprocating or rotating blades behind a fine metal comb or pierced foil

  1. informal a youngster, esp a young boy

  2. obsolete a person who makes hard or extortionate bargains

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