Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who has or possesses; a possessor.
- n. In Scots law, the holder of a deed or writing, who is called upon to produce it judicially, in modum probationis, or for inspection in the course of a process.
- n. Oats; the oat, Avena sativa.
- To talk foolishly or at random. Also haiver.
Wiktionary
- v. UK To hem and haw
- v. Scotland To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter; talking nonsense; to babble
- n. The cereal oats.
- n. One who has, possesses etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A possessor; a holder.
- n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. The oat; oats.
- v. Scot. To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter.
Etymologies
- Germanic, from Dutch haver ("oats"), cognate with German Hafer. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The safest method was one Mossadniks called haver mevir haver, Hebrew for "a friend brings along a friend.”
“The old 50th had its share too, and the blockheads in the East, who 'haver' over their wine of India's being in a state to require no British troops, are wrong: for, liberally contributing the full meed of praise to the Seapoy Battalions, that praise is so rested on the British soldier's example, the want of that 'point d'appui 'would entail a dire want indeed, that of victory!”
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
“haver', or oats, 10d., a good mower cutting 4 acres a day.”
“We USED to haver a balenced budget before you two came into power.”
“Conservatism and America's CEOs haver stolen our economy and sold it to the lowest bidders. not alone”
“Não poderia haver melhor opening act do que ele: citando Man Ray, Dada, Duchamp e muitos outros, o designer e diretor de arte britânico deixou o recado básico: "não esqueçam de onde viemos".”
“The fall in buying activity was also blamed for muted high street sales, which haver come to rely on a buoyant property market to boost the sale of furniture and big ticket items like flat-screen TVs and home furnishings.”
The Guardian: House sellers fear weakening economy, RICS reveals
“Além disso, foi estabelecido que, após três anos, pode haver a venda da propriedade.”
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon?
“Filed under Celluloid, Roundup, Vinyl · Tagged with june haver, warner bros.”
“I got my 3rd child 6 months ago, a nice boy after 2 wondeful girls (although I would have loved to haver a third girl).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘haver’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Thats a word?!
Unusual jumbles of letters that are actually words
asci, lin, avast, presumptuousness, drumble, repudiate, anile, feal, dawt, haver, apery, hoary and 10 more...
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Oats
avener, avenor, avenary, potato-oat, haver, haver-grass, haverbread, havercake, avercake, oats, groats, rolled oats and 51 more...
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Character traits
Falstaffian, drumble, despond, grotesque, élan, anile, feal, smart aleck, phat, blowsy, haver, hoary and 18 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Spe...
surquedry, equivocate, putative, turgid, congeries, irrefragable, quiddity, zaftig, flagitious, bloviate, perfidy, compendious and 227 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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the Island of the Day Before
phoebus, promontory, succor, indite, sickle, cerulean, tenebrous, specter, bastion, clemency, miasma, nocturlabe and 112 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2041 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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Words not to confuse
Words that unfortunately have more than one meaning that could either be taken as an insult or a compliment.
snipe, idiotism, piddle, jerk, insolence, drumble, dawt, phat, haver, apery, hoary, orra and 10 more...
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Awesome words
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ouphe, hoiden, piddle, defenestrate, flic, desist, avast, cessation, extrapolate, temerity, effrontery, presumptuousness and 54 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for haver.

reesetee Not to be confused with haversack. ;-) Nov 10, 2008
jinglebelljosie v. to talk foolishness
n. havers. foolish talk Nov 8, 2008
kringlan "And if I haver yeah I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you". Scottish slang for talking nonsens. Jul 7, 2008
slumry Also oats Jul 19, 2007
reesetee I'd rather deponticate. Feb 27, 2007
chained_bear Actually, a favorite band of mine uses "haver" (pronounced "hay-ver") as a slang term which, when I asked someone from the country in question what was meant, means "to vomit." Feb 26, 2007
seanahan If Haver is someone who has something, then "Be-er" is someone who is something. Feb 26, 2007
uselessness Also: Someone who has something. Feb 26, 2007
kingrat47 To hesitate Dec 9, 2006