barber

See also: Barber and barbēr

English

A barber cuts hair on the streets of Harbin, China.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɑː.bə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)

Noun

barber (plural barbers)

  1. A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
  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.

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Verb

barber (third-person singular simple present 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 2010, p. 29:
      ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’

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Etymology

From barba +‎ -er.

Noun

barber m (plural barbers, feminine barbera)

  1. barber

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French

Etymology

From barbe +‎ -er; compare with familiar sense of raser which was its original meaning in Old French.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁ.be/

Verb

barber

  1. (familiar) to bore someone
    • Le fait est qu'il ne perd aucune occasion de nous barber avec ses expériences dramatiques. (Claudel, Le Ravissement de Scapin, 1952)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

barber

  1. imperative of barbere
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