barber
see also: Barber
Etymology

From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe ("beard"), from Latin barba.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈbɑː.bə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/
Noun

barber (plural barbers)

  1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
    Synonyms: haircutter, hairdresser, hairstylist, tonsor
  2. A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
  3. (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.
Translations Verb

barber (barbers, present participle barbering; simple past and past participle barbered)

  1. To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
  2. (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.’
Translations
Barber
Proper noun
  1. Surname for a barber.
  2. A neighbourhood in Chico, Butte County.
  3. A twp in Faribault County, Minnesota.
  4. Former name of Maurer New Jersey.
  5. An unincorporated community/and/CDP in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
  6. A town in the north of Curaçao.



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