different between shavee vs shaver

English

Etymology

shave +? -ee

Noun

shavee (plural shavees)

1. (rare) A person who has their hair shaved off.

Anagrams

• heaves, heveas, sheave

English

Etymology

From Middle English schaver; equivalent to shave +? -er.

In its meaning of a boy, lad, recorded since 1592, the word shaver has also been postulated to derive from Romani chavo (“young man”), which also gives us the modern slang chav, ultimately derived from Sanskrit ?? (ch?, “young animal”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh??v?r
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??e?v?/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??e?v?/
• Rhymes: -e?v?(?)

Noun

shaver (plural shavers)

1. One who shaves.
2. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
3. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
4. (slang, obsolete) An extortionate bargainer; a sharper.
   • 1723, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift

     The shaver is an honest friendly man as before: he has a good deal to do to smother his Welsh fire, which, you know, he has in a greater degree than some would imagine. He posts himself a good part of the year in some warm house, wins the ladies money at ombre, and convinces them, that they are highly obliged to him.

5. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.

   • By these shavers the Turks were stripped.

6. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “shaver”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Havers, havers