barber

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

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From Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from Latin barba.

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

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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).

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barber

  1. (slang) to talk

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

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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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