Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To gossip or talk idly.
- noun Gossip; idle talk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An idle story.
- noun plural Idle talk; gossip.
- To climb.
- noun A shortened form of
claviger . - noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
clover . - To talk idly or foolishly; talk much and at random.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. & North of Eng. Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
- noun See
clover .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland
gossip ,chit-chat - verb to
gossip orchit-chat - noun UK, Scotland, dialect
frivolous ornonsensical talk ;prattle ;chatter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A Missouri voter in reply to a comment from claver
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While claver [clover] blooms white o'er the ley [pasture]
Country Lassie 1999
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And he would rather claver with a daft quean they call Diana
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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"For everything I did was a fault except just I would be sitting at home with my old mother, and so I just fell in wi 'McGilp, and left the lassies to claver among themsel's for a year or two, for they will have too many cantrips for a simple man."
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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Belle's wean might be "a tinker's brat" in whispered corners in byres and hay-sheds, where the wenches could claver out of hearing, but the
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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"Everybody will ken the right wye o 'it, and will claver and gossip, when they wad 'a be better to mind their ain affairs, an' let ither folk alane."
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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Thomas took her by the weak side, and usually arrested her "light-horse gallop of clish ma-claver" by some specious story of ghost or hobgoblin adventures, with which he had been detained.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 Various
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The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane?
Lords of the North 1903
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"Hoots wi 'y'r giddy claver," said he, before I had spoken a word; and walking off, he sat down at some distance.
Lords of the North 1903
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