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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

... "Johnny will be a famous young shaver one of these days;" and with that, he whipped up his horse, and ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 • Various

... minute. You spoke of heredity and environment. I'm giving you all sides, except anything more about my mother. Her father was a cranky inventor ... Well, inside six months we were living in a tenement. I was a little shaver of six. The younger of my sisters was a baby. Talk about environment! Wasn't many years before I was known as the ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... for a snake-bite if bruised into a poultice and bound upon the place soon after one is bitten. My father showed it to me a great many years ago, when I was a little shaver, and told me how he had learned about it from an old Indian herb-doctor. He tried it several times for moccasin-and adder-and copperhead-bites among his servants, and it was a cure in every instance. It grows on both sides of this branch, and nowhere else ...

— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland

... about the early days: "Uncle Jimmy Larkins, as everybody called him, was a great hero in my childish eyes. Why, I cannot now say, without it was his manners. There had been a big fox chase, and Uncle Jimmy was telling about it. Of course he was the hero. I was only a little shaver, and I stood in front of Uncle Jimmy, looking up into his eyes, but he never noticed me. He looked at Abraham Lincoln, and 'Abe, I've got the best horse in the world—he won the race and never drew a long breath;' but Abe paid no attention to Uncle Jimmy, ...

— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell

... 'im!' chuckled the elder villain; 'no right t' interfere, an' the young shaver's got the price o' ...

— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore

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