glaver

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English

Etymology

Of Celtic origin. Compare Welsh glafr (“flattery”).

Pronunciation

Verb

glaver (third-person singular simple present glavers, present participle glavering, simple past and past participle glavered)

  1. (obsolete) To prate; to jabber; to babble.
  2. (obsolete) To flatter; to wheedle.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:
      Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “glaver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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