shave – English noun declension

English noun forms of shave

Noun: shave
Singularshave
Pluralshaves

Sample Sentences

  • I instructed the barber to give me a shave.
  • a jolly mealy 'tator, with a shave of butter, and a shake of pepper [1859, Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier, Albert Richard Smith, Sketches of London life & character:]
  • 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. [1838, Levin Lawrence, No. I. of a series of Letters addressed to N. Biddle, page 13:]
  • 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. [1854, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana; Volume 4, page 192:]
  • 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? [1874, The Insurance Journal: A Review of Fire and Life Insurance:]
  • 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. [1877, William Wait, A Digest of New York Reports: From 1872 to 1876:]
  • He expected to pay the expenses of examining the titles, yet claims that the whole sum paid was a shave. [1878, Court of Appeals, page 7:]
  • "[…] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie. [1919, Edward Frederic Benson, Across the Stream:]
  • "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. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô. See: Middle English Nouns 'shave', Old English Nouns 'sceafa'.