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Shaver

noun

An adult male who shaves.

A young person of either sex. Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster. "They're just kids" , "'tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

A razor powered by an electric motor. Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver.

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"Shaver" Quotes from Famous Books

... helped de best way I could, for I was a little shaver then, and Jim, he was next to me, he did little jobs for de white folks around. But father he got worse, and wouldn't work no how, and he was always gettin' took up, and then when they let him out of jail ...

— 'Our guy' - or, The elder brother • Mrs. E. E. Boyd

... "You funny little shaver," laughed Tom, good-humoredly. "So you think that, when men see you smoking cigarettes, they immediately imagine you to be one of them? Cigarette-smoking, for a boy of fourteen, is the short ...

— The Young Engineers in Nevada • H. Irving Hancock

... impostors that are the worst lot of all the lots to be met with. Speaking as a sufferer by both, I don't know that I wouldn't as soon have the Merdle lot as your lot. You're a driver in disguise, a screwer by deputy, a wringer, and squeezer, and shaver by substitute. You're a philanthropic sneak. You're a shabby deceiver!' (The repetition of the performance at this point was received with a ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... young shaver of about nine or ten. I asked him what he was doing here, and he told me that this tent belonged to a gentleman who had gone away, and that he was here to watch it until he came back. Then I asked him how long ...

— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton

Words linked to "Shaver" : adult male, waif, orphan, shave, scallywag, imp, man, bairn, street child, foster child, changeling, toddler, child's body, fosterling, peanut, silly, bambino, piccaninny, kiddy, rapscallion, monkey, infant prodigy, child prodigy, pickaninny, foster-child, scamp, urchin, kindergartener, rascal, picaninny, scalawag, yearling, tot, juvenile person, poster child, kindergartner, juvenile, buster, wonder child, razor, sprog, preschooler