shave
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”).
Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven, Low German schaven, German schaben, Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava, Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban), all roughly “to scrape, chafe, shave, plane, remove the outer lay of”.
Inflected forms:
form: shaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shaved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shove
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: shaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shove
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: shaven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut anything in this fashion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Lab'rer vvith the bending Scythe is ſeen / Shaving the Surface of the vvaving Green; […]
gloss: To remove hair from one's face by this means.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I had little time to shave this morning.
gloss: To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
pos: verb
examples: Now shaves with level wing the deep.
[…] I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin–pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; […]
gloss: To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.
pos: verb
examples: Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.
The acceleration was impressive, and these trains should allow TfW to look at shaving a few minutes off schedules here and there in the fullness of time, […].
gloss: To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.
pos: verb
tags: US
dated
slang
transitive
gloss: To injure by employing a knife.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
transitive
examples: Took one of the goons, the fuck they gonna do?
Shave him in the heart then the mandem smoke a zoot
gloss: An instance of shaving.
pos: noun
examples: I instructed the barber to give me a shave.
gloss: A thin slice; a shaving.
pos: noun
examples: a jolly mealy 'tator, with a shave of butter, and a shake of pepper
gloss: An exorbitant discount on a note.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: yea, tis knowable that the paper money of some of them would not pass, comparatively speaking, much, if any, beyond the smoke of the chimney from whence 'twas issued and circulated before you, or those who had it would have to take a broker's shave on it , at the rate of from a ¼, to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, or more per cent, before it could be used as solvently available means of payment.
Being unable to pay the note at maturity, Laws went with Starr to one Snyder, to whom the note was sold at a “shave,” as the parties called it, of 10 per cent.
gloss: A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: If this were a dishonest transaction, why did the companies settle? If it were not, why did the heirs submit to a shave of one-half their claims?
Where S made a note to raise money upon, and H, agreeing to discount it for a shave of six dollars, received the note and soon returned with the check of V for the amount of such note, less legal discount, payable to the order of S, and he drew the money thereon and having no knowldge of the agreement or of the payment,–Held, that V was not guilty of usury, but was entitled to recover on the note.
He expected to pay the expenses of examining the titles, yet claims that the whole sum paid was a shave.
gloss: A hand tool, mainly for woodworking, consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "[…] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.
"Was it a near thing?" asked Carrados confidentially.
"Well, strictly between ourselves, I don't mind admitting that it might have been something of a shave," confessed Tulloch, with a cheerful grin.
Derived words: aftershave
God Shave the Queen
inshave
overshave
reshave
shaveable
shave brush
shave cream
shave down
shavee
shave foam
shavegrass
shavehook
shaveling
shave off
shaver
shavetail
shave up
shaving brush
shaving bump
shaving cream
shaving foam
unshaved
preshave
close shave
green shave
midshave
near shave
permanent shave
point-shave
shave and a haircut
shave hook
shave-hook
shave horse
shave ice
shaveless
shave soap
shave stick
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