clype
/klʌɪp
/Scottish
verb [no object]
Inform on someone; tell tales: the scam went on for two weeks until disgruntled neighbours clyped on him...
- It was like asking Freemasons to clype on their grandmaster.
- Cereal and scrambled eggs have left her chirpy enough to clype on two friends who came to watch her play here last year but did not manage to leave the sumptuous swimming pool.
- We divided into three groups; top dogs were those near school-leaving age, next came those in the pre-teen bracket, and bottom of the pile were the wee pains who got under everyone's feet and ran off to clype on any who attempted forcibly to remove them.
noun
An informer.I've just accused one of my granddaughters of being a clype and she didn't know what it meant....
- And yet there's something in the British character that hates snitchers, tell-tales, sneaks and clypes.
- The boys also built a snow house which was used to punish clypes.
Origin
Early 18th century: obscurely developed from Old English cleopian 'call', of Germanic origin.