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haberdash

/ˈhæbə(ɹ)ˌdæʃ/

haberdash verb: to deal in small wares, or provide with wares.

Verb

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

  1. To deal in small wares, or provide with wares.
    • VVhat meane dull ſoules, in this high meaſure / To haberdaſh / In earths baſe vvares, vvhoſe greateſt treaſure / Is droſſe and traſh?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
    • “‘No way-stops,’ says I to Solly, ‘except long enough to get you barbered and haberdashed. This is no Texas feet shampetter,’ says I, ‘where you eat chili-concarne-con-huevos and then holler “Whoopee!” across the plaza. We’re now going against the real high life. We’re going to mingle with the set...1907, O. Henry, Heart of the West, Seats of the Haughty

Noun

haberdash (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Smallware, haberdashery.

haberdash meaning in Bengali

haberdash in Bengali

ছোটখাটো পণ্যের ব্যবসা করা, অথবা পণ্য সরবরাহ করা, ছোটখাটো পণ্য, মনিহারি দ্রব্য

Forms of haberdash

third-person singular presenthaberdashes
present participlehaberdashing
past participlehaberdashed
pasthaberdashed

Origin of haberdash

See haberdasher.

Words that rhyme with haberdash

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about haberdash

What does haberdash mean?
Haberdash means to deal in small wares, or provide with wares.
What is haberdash in Bengali?
Haberdash in Bengali is ছোটখাটো পণ্যের ব্যবসা করা, অথবা পণ্য সরবরাহ করা, ছোটখাটো পণ্য. See Haberdash meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is haberdash?
Haberdash can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce haberdash?
Haberdash is pronounced /ˈhæbə(ɹ)ˌdæʃ/.
What is the past tense of haberdash?
The past tense of haberdash is haberdashed.

Words near haberdash in the dictionary

  1. Haber process
  2. Haber syndrome
  3. haberah
  4. haberdascher
  5. haberdaschers
  6. haberdash
  7. haberdashed
  8. haberdasher
  9. haberdasher of pronouns
  10. haberdasheress
  11. haberdasheries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haberdash (page history and authors); haberdash (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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