Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To gossip or talk idly.
- n. Gossip; idle talk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete or dialectal form of clover.
- To climb.
- To talk idly or foolishly; talk much and at random.
- n. An idle story.
- n. plural Idle talk; gossip.
- n. A shortened form of claviger.
Wiktionary
- n. Scotland gossip, chit-chat
- v. to gossip or chit-chat
- n. UK, Scotland, dialect frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See clover.
- n. Scot. & North of Eng. Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
WordNet 3.0
- v. talk socially without exchanging too much information
Etymologies
- Perhaps of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A Missouri voter in reply to a comment from claver”
“While claver [clover] blooms white o'er the ley [pasture]”
“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.”
“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
“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.”
“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”
“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
“The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover]”
“An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane?”
“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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