- to talk foolishly or waste time talking foolishly
- to waver; vacillate
Origin of haver
from uncertain or unknown; perhaps
verb
- An example of haver is to waste time talking instead of working.
- An example of haver is to waiver back and forth on a decision.
Haver is defined as to talk in a foolish way, or to go back and forth on a decision.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present havers, present participle havering, simple past and past participle havered)
- (UK) To hem and haw
- (Scotland), Usually haiver. To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter; talking nonsense; to babble
Origin
Borrowing from Scots haver, from Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”). Cognate with Dutch haver (“oats”), cognate with German Hafer (“oat”).
Noun
(plural havers)
- One who has, possesses etc.
Origin
have + -er
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Sentence Examples
- Certain forms of the conjugation of the verb differ from the Castilian: dar, esiar, haver, saber, poner readily form their imperfects and imperfect subjunctives like the regular verbs in ar and erhavieron (Cast.