SHAVE, SHAVING
ADJECTIVES
► BARBING shaving, stripping bare → 1630
► CHAETOPHOROUS in need of a shave → 19C
► OYSTER-FACED in need of shaving, unshaven → 1890 sl.
ADVERBS
► BARBERLY with a barber’s methods, by shaving → 1573 obs.
NOUNS
► ALL NIGHT RAVE a shave → 2016 Cockney rhyming sl. (Bk.)
► BABBS the slimy matter a razor scrapes off the face in shaving → 1824 Sc. obs.
► BARBERY the barber’s art or craft; shaving → 1540
► BARBING shaving, hairdressing; clipping → 1485 obs.
► BURBLE a little red pimple on the face after shaving too close → 1930 Amer. dial.
► CIRCUMRASION the act of shaving or paring round → 1731 obs. rare
► DAD AND DAVE ► DAD ‘N’ DAVE a shave → 1930s Aust. rhyming sl.
► DIG IN THE GRAVE a shave → 1931 Aust. rhyming sl.
► DOUCHE KIT a shaving kit → 1970 US sl.
► MISBEHAVE a shave → 20C Aust. rhyming sl.
► MOWING THE LAWN shaving with an electric razor → c1955 Aust. sl.
► OCEAN WAVE a shave → 1928 rhyming sl.
► RASION the act of scraping or shaving; division by scraping or filing → .1612 rare or obs.
► RASP a shave → 1940s sl.
► RASURE the act of shaving the head, hair, etc. → 1483 obs.
► RAZORRIDGE shaving → E18 sl.
► SCRAPE a shave → 1879 Sc. & Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BLACK-MUMMER one unwashed and unshorn → a1790 UK sl.
PHRASES
► YOUR UNDERWEAR IS SHOWING you need a shave → 1960s US homosexual sl.
VERBS
► BARB to shave or trim the beard of a person → 1587 obs.
► BARBER to shave → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► DAD AND DAVE to have a shave → c1930 Aust. rhyming sl.
► DECURTATE to shave, to trim the hair → 1599 obs.
► FAKE THE FATCHA to shave; to put on makeup → 1996 sl.
► MOW to shave; usually used in describing a woman shaving her legs or her pubic area → 1991 US sl.
► MOW THE BRIGALO SUCKERS to shave one’s beard → 1990s Aust. sl.
► POLL to cut the hair of a person or animal; to shave, to shear; to barber → 1325
► RASE to shave a person → 1580 obs. exc. Sc.
► RAZOR-RIDE to shave → 1892 Sc.
► SCOTLAND (THE BRAVE) to shave → 1998 UK rhyming sl.
► SCRAPE to shave → 1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.
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