haberdash

English

Etymology

See haberdasher.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhæbə(ɹ)ˌdæʃ/, /ˌhæbə(ɹ)ˈdæʃ/
  • Rhymes: -æʃ

Verb

haberdash (third-person singular simple present haberdashes, present participle haberdashing, simple past and past participle haberdashed)

  1. To deal in small wares.
    • 1635, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Canto V. Pro[verbs] XXIII. V.”, in Emblemes, London: […] G[eorge] M[iller] and sold at at Iohn Marriots shope […], →OCLC, book II, stanza 5, page 82:
      VVhat meane dull ſoules, in this high meaſure / To haberdaſh / In earths baſe vvares, vvhoſe greateſt treaſure / Is droſſe and traſh?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haberdash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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