claver

From Scots claver.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklævə(ɹ)/

claver (countable and uncountable, plural clavers)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers.

claver (third-person singular simple present clavers, present participle clavering, simple past and past participle clavered)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To gossip or chit-chat.

claver (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of clover.
   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “[A Paraphrase upon the Second Booke of the Psalmes of David.] Psalme LXV.”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], OCLC 1203213428, page 101:

     He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.

• calver, carvel

claver

1. (regional) to lock

• “claver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

claver

1. Alternative form of clovere

Uncertain. Perhaps compare Gaelic clabaire (“prattler”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkleːvər/

claver (third-person singular simple present clavers, present participle claverin, simple past clavert, past participle clavert)

1. to gossip, chat idly
   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.3:

     ‘he'll claver wi' her, or ony ither idle slut, rather than hear what might do him gude a' the days of his life, frae you or me, Mr. Hammorgaw, or ony ither sober and sponsible person.’