"Shaven"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/25/2012 10:52 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Maybe so, but there are more than a few hits for "clean shavin'"
>(with or without apostrophe), suggesting a reanalysis from a perhaps
>moribund perfect participle.

But are these "the clean shavin' Gilette Atra", or similar?

Joel

>Google in fact, while offering "about 52,600 results" for "clean
>shavin", wonders forlornly whether I perhaps meant "clean
>shaven".  The latter gets over 4 million raw ghits, some for a 1990s
>movie "Clean, Shaven".
>
>LH
>
>On Jun 25, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> > "Clean-shaved," OTOH, sounds crazy..
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:35 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> shaven : shaved. Every once in a while I?ll get all shaven & shorn for
> >> something important, like the preacher who married the maiden all forlorn,
> >> who milked the cow with the crumpled horn, that kicked the dog,
> that chased
> >> the cat, that killed the rat, that ate the malt, that lay in the house of
> >> pancakes.
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