claver

C3L1A1V4E1R1
/ˈklævɚ/

noun

Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.

Similar
chew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchitchatchit-chatchatter
OriginScots claver →
UncommonScrabble 11
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Meanings

claver1

nounclaver (countable and uncountable, plural clavers)

plural clavers

  1. ScotlandUKcountabledialectaluncountableFrivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.

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

    1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
verbclaver (third-person singular simple present clavers, present participle clavering, simple past and past participle clavered)

present singular third person clavers · participle present clavering · participle past clavered · past clavered

  1. ScotlandUKdialectalTo gossip or chit-chat.

claver2

nounclaver (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete form of clover.

    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.

    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, page 101

Claver3

proper noun
  1. A municipality of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbtalk socially without exchanging too much information

Similar
chew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchitchatchit-chatchatterchaffernattergossipjawvisit
Broader
conversediscourse
Also see
blathercarpchafferchatchatterchew the fatchit-chatconfabulategossipjawnatterpalaverprateprattlescuttlebuttshoot the breezetwaddlevisitwafflewibble

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Scotsclaver
  2. Scotsclaver
  3. Englishclaver

Borrowed from Scots claver.

More words from Scots

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

carvelcalver
Cite this entry
APA

claver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/claver

MLA

“claver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/claver. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “claver,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/claver.

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