clishmaclaver

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English

Noun

clishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)

  1. (Scotland) Gossip; silly chatter.
    • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 271:
      “Some people endeavour to defend this, saying, that it assists devotion, and a great deal of idle clish-maclaiver of the same kind [] .”

Scots

Noun

clishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)

  1. Gossip; idle talk.
    A curse on dull and drawlin' Whig, the whinin' rantin' low deceiver, wi' heart sae black and look sae big, and cantin' tongue o' clishmaclaver.
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