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Webster 1913 Edition


Barber

Bar′ber

(bär′bẽr)
,
Noun.
[OE.
barbour
, OF.
barbeor
, F.
barbier
, as if fr. an assumed L.
barbator
, fr.
barba
beard. See 1st
Barb
.]
One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
Barber’s itch
.
See under
Itch
.
☞ Formerly the barber practiced some offices of surgery, such as letting blood and pulling teeth. Hence such terms as
barber surgeon
(old form
barber chirurgeon
),
barber surgery
, etc.

Bar′ber

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Barbered
(bär′bẽrd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Barbering
.]
To shave and dress the beard or hair of.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Barber

B'ARBER

,
Noun.
One whose occupation is to shave men, or to shave and dress hair.

B'ARBER

,
Verb.
T.
To shave and dress hair.

Definition 2024


Barber

Barber

See also: barber and barbēr

English

Proper noun

Barber

  1. A surname.

barber

barber

See also: Barber and barbēr

English

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

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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French

Etymology

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

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