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clish-ma-claver, n. Sc.|klɪʃməˈkleɪvə(r)|
[formed app. with allusion to clish-clash and claver, with echoic associations.]
Gossip, foolish talk.
1728Ramsay Advice to Mr. ― on Marriage, This method's ever thought the braver Than either cuffs, or clish-ma-claver. 1794Burns Let. G. Thomson 19 Oct., Don't..have any clishmaclaiver about it among our acquaintances. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 262 Her clishmaclavers about the Forty five.
Hence clish-ma-claver v., to gossip.
1821Galt Sir A. Wylie I. 109 (Jam.) To keep me clish-ma-clavering when I should be taking my pick. |