haver
verb/ˈheɪvə/UK/ˈheːvəɹ//ˈhævɚ/US/ˈhævə/UK
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots haver, from Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”). Cognate with Dutch haver (“oats”) and German Hafer (“oat”).
Definitions
To hem and haw.
- This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.
To talk foolishly
To talk foolishly; to chatter.
- To business, and no more havers.
- And if I haver, Yeah I know I’m gonna be, I’m gonna be the man Who’s haverin' to you.
- She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."
The cereal grain of cultivated oats (Avena sativa).
- From porridge, the liquid preparation of oats, we are led almost automatically to the haver-cake, which was a great improvement on the former, for it could be carried about, and kept for an indefinite time in sound and wholesome condition.
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The plant or the grain of common wild oats (Avena fatua).
One who has something (in various senses).
- 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.
- Because abortion would no longer be an issue (except, again, in the case of criminal sex-havers), Democrats and republicans would stop fighting […]
- Yet, DiAngelo writes, white people cling to the notion of racial innocence, a form of weaponized denial that positions black people as the "havers" of race and the guardians of racial knowledge.
The person who has custody of a document.
Alternative form of chaver.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for haver. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA