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 A shortened form of
claviger . - To climb.
- To talk idly or foolishly; talk much and at random.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
clover . - noun An idle story.
- noun plural Idle talk; gossip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
clover . - noun Scot. & North of Eng. Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
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]
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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
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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."
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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
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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."
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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
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The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover]
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An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane?
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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.
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