barber
see also: Barber
Etymology
Barber
Proper noun
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see also: Barber
Etymology
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe ("beard"), from Latin barba.
Pronunciation Nounbarber (plural barbers)
- A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
- Synonyms: haircutter, hairdresser, hairstylist, tonsor
- A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
- (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.
- French: coiffeur, coiffeuse, barbier
- German: Barbier, Bartschneider, Bartscherer, Friseur
- Italian: barbiere, parrucchiere
- Portuguese: barbeiro
- Russian: парикма́хер
- Spanish: barbero, peluquero
barber (barbers, present participle barbering; simple past and past participle barbered)
- To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
- (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 29:
- ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’
Barber
Proper noun
- Surname for a barber.
- A neighbourhood in Chico, Butte County.
- A twp in Faribault County, Minnesota.
- Former name of Maurer New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community/and/CDP in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
- A town in the north of Curaçao.
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