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• EAGER BEAVER (noun)
The noun EAGER BEAVER has 1 sense:

1. an alert and energetic person

Familiarity information: EAGER BEAVER used as a noun is very rare.

• EAGER BEAVER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An alert and energetic person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy

Hypernyms ("eager beaver" is a kind of...):

actor; doer; worker (a person who acts and gets things done)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eager beaver"):

goffer; gopher (a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman))

"After a storm comes a calm."
(English proverb)
"He who does not work, must not eat."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"Ignorance is the worst acquaintance."
(Arabic proverb)
"If you own two houses, it's raining in one of them."
(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
Definition of worker
Pronunciation of doer
Definition of goffer
Pronunciation of gopher
Definition of actor

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