"Shaven"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 25, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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

No, they seem to describe the patient rather than the agent or instrument.  We have clean shavin men, a clean shavin look, clean shavin Dad, and so on.  And while there are 19,000+ hits for "clean shaving razor", there's only 1 hit for "clean shavin razor".

LH

>
>> 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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>> >> Poster:       W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
>> >> Subject:      Re: "Shaven"
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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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