Meanings
nounclishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)
plural clishmaclavers
- ScotlandGossip; silly chatter.
“Some people endeavour to defend this, saying, that it assists devotion, and a great deal of idle clish-maclaiver of the same kind […].”
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 271
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