Haver definition

Verb

To hem and haw
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 154
  
  This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.
To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter; talking nonsense; to babble
- 1988, The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
  
  And if I haver, yeah I know I’m gonna be / I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to you.
- 2004 James Campbell, "Boswell and Mrs. Miller", in The Genius of Language (ed. Wendy Lesser), p. 194
  
  She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."

Etymology 2

Germanic, from , cognate with German .

Etymology

From , present active infinitive of .

Verb

To have, as an auxiliary verb for compound tenses
- He fet.
  
  I have done.

To must, have, as in "to have to"

Haig de fer alguna cosa

I have to do something.

Conjugation

Etymology

Uncertain, plausibly from Middle Dutch haver, probably of Germanic origin given many apparent cognates such as Old Norse , Old English , Old High German .

Noun

Any wild species or cultivar of the genus Avena
Especially Avena sativa, the cereal oats, notably fed to equines
Hence, notably in compounds, fodder or anything being 'fed', given in dose(s)

Verb form

imperative and singular present imperfect forms of haveren

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Etymology

From the , from the .