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单词 haverel
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havereln.adj.

Brit. /ˈheɪv(ə)rəl/, /ˈhav(ə)rəl/, U.S. /ˈheɪv(ə)rəl/, /ˈhæv(ə)rəl/, Scottish English /ˈhev(ə)rəl/, /ˈhav(ə)rəl/, Irish English /ˈhæv(ə)rəl/
Forms: 1700s hav'ril, 1700s–1800s hav'rel, 1700s– haverel, 1700s– haveril, 1700s– havrel, 1800s haiverall, 1800s haivrel, 1800s haveral, 1800s havril, 1800s– haiveral, 1800s– haiverel, 1800s– haivrell, 1800s– hyveral (Shetland), 1900s– haeveral, 1900s– haiveril, 1900s– haverill, 1900s– heveril.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: haver v., -el suffix2.
Etymology: Apparently < haver v. (although this is first attested slightly later) + -el suffix2 (compare -rel suffix). Compare havering adj. Perhaps compare also earlier havel n.
Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern).
A. n.
1. Scottish. A lazy or idle person; a sloven. Also: an ungainly person. rare.Recorded only in dictionaries and glossarial sources. Sc. National Dict. (at Haiverel) records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1956, but marks it as obsolescent.In quot. 1720 the glossary entry haveren may refer to hav'ren in quot. 1720 at havering adj. 1 (see note at that entry); however, there are no instances of haverel or havrel in Ramsay's poems.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun]
mesela1400
scabbardc1440
slotterbugc1440
drivel1498
sow1508
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1530
filthy1553
ketterela1572
slabberer1611
slubberdegullion1612
Grobian1621
slabberdegullion1653
slobber-chops1670
slate1718
haverel1720
slobberer1732
slummock1760
fleabag1805
slush1825
slob1876
trashbag1887
crumb1918
garbage can1925
hog1932
crud1940
sordid1959
grot1970
1720 A. Ramsay Poems Gloss. 373/2 Haveren, or Havrel, sloven [1800 an insignificant chatterer, a half-witted fellow].
1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 52 Hyveral, a lounger; an idle, lazy person.
c1930 Mrs. Nicol in Sc. National Dict. (1960) V. 6/2 Haiverel,..[mid-Dumfriesshire] an ungainly person.
2. A person given to foolish or inconsequential chatter or gossip; = haverer n. 1. Also: a stupid or ignorant person, a fool, a simpleton.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] > one who indulges in
praterc1500
bumbard?a1513
babbler?1555
jabberer1678
bag of wind1816
haverel1825
haverer1825
windbag1827
clatfarta1930
natterer1959
1772 Town & Country Mag. July 384/2 Hoot ye daft hav'ril, cease your silly din.
a1779 D. Graham Coll. Writings (1883) II. 34 A muckle mouth't haverel it is just like yoursel.
1789 D. Sillar Poems 92 Haud up your head, an' think nae shame, Tho' for't ilk hav'rel sud you blame.
1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 71 Gle'yd Sawnie, the haivrel.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at Haveril ‘Parfitly redicclous is that haveril there.’
a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 103 Their only child ‘Bett’, a loud haveril of a lass.
1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland xiii. 273 Haverel, a rude coarse boor, a rough ignorant fellow.
1932 J. M. Barrie Farewell Miss Julie Logan 27 Neither good luck nor mischief, so far as I can discover, comes to the havrels of nowadays.
1996 D. Healy Bend for Home iii. 14 He'd taken with him the only loaf of bread in the house and a pot of gooseberry jam. The fecking haverel, shouted Eileen.
B. adj.
Given to or characterized by foolish or inconsequential chatter or gossip; garrulous, blathering. Also: foolish, stupid. Now archaic and rare.Some quots. may show appositive use of the noun.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [adjective] > engaging in idle talk
babblinga1250
chatteringa1250
drivellinga1475
clattering1477
trattling?a1513
prating1528
bluddering1553
chatting1589
mouthy1589
dribbling1593
tinkling1625
stultiloquious1683
havering1720
vaniloquent1727
haverela1774
havering1808
stultiloquent1845
yattering1859
blethery1889
blithering1889
yackety-yacking1953
yacketing1958
nattering1959
yacking1959
chopsy1974
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 183 Ye haveril Scot.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 Poor hav'rel Will fell aff the drift.
1832 Day (Glasgow) 6 Feb. 122/1 Ye have retired from busines just to write haverel books.
1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 176 A good-hearted, rattling, clever haveral sort of woman.
1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 138 At last John got fair heveril ower her, an ax't her, an she took him.
2004 P. McIntosh Harper's Quine (2007) vii. 158 ‘And why did none of you tell me?’ demanded her mistress. ‘What a flock of haiverel lassies!’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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