Ron Carlson

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

American Novelist

Logan Browning

With too much wash and wear, sweaters get fuzzy or start to pill. Having a fabric shaver is a game changer. It makes my sweaters look brand-new.

American Actress

Shaver refers to a device for personal grooming; usually electric and used for facial hair.

Grooming Device

Shavers are often associated with men, but women can use them too for body hair.

Gender Specific

While common for facial hair, shavers can also be used on other parts of the body.

Not Just Faces

The term for a young boy, 'shaver', is informal and not commonly used in modern English.

Colloquial Usage

Using 'shaver' to mean a young boy gives a conversation a historical or old-fashioned tone.

Archaic Flavor

When referring to a boy, 'shaver' is gender specific but used to be more neutral in the past.

Gender Neutral

 and his shaver, and he shaved it onto my pasta and he said, you know, "Would Signore like the truffles?" And the charm of white truffles is in their aroma. It's not in their taste, really. It's not in their texture. It's in the smell. These white pearlescent flakes hit the noodles,

Benjamin Wallace: The...

 there's a difference between a shave and a haircut yes yes I think that's fair and my suppose I have had more of a shave haven't I that's what I do with the shaver right so we hadn't that