haver

verb

1. (British)To hem and haw.

   “This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.”

2. (Scotland)To talk foolishly; to chatter.

   “To business, and no more havers.”

   “And if I haver, Yeah I know I’m gonna be, I’m gonna be the man Who’s haverin' to you.”

   “She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."”

noun

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK)The cereal grain of cultivated oats (Avena sativa).

   “From porridge, the liquid preparation of oats, we are led almost automatically to the haver-cake, which was a great improvement on the former, for it could be carried about, and kept for an indefinite time in sound and wholesome condition.”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic)The plant or the grain of common wild oats (Avena fatua).
3. One who has something (in various senses).

   “It is held / That valour is the chiefest virtue, and / Most dignifies the haver: if it be, / The man I speak of cannot in the world / Be singly counterpoised.”

   “Because abortion would no longer be an issue (except, again, in the case of criminal sex-havers), Democrats and republicans would stop fighting […]”

   “Yet, DiAngelo writes, white people cling to the notion of racial innocence, a form of weaponized denial that positions black people as the "havers" of race and the guardians of racial knowledge.”

   “As a haver of eczema and chronically parched skin, I know I can always return to this nourishing formula that uses soothing colloidal oatmeal and allantoin as well as shea butter which works to protect the skin barrier.”

4. (Scotland)The person who has custody of a document.
5. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of chaver.

name

1. A surname.