glaver

present singular third person glavers · participle present glavering · participle past glavered · past glavered

1. obsoleteTo flatter; to wheedle.

   Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.

   1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

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   Luke. Item, that the Honourable Ms. Gloriana Strut is ſo fantaſtical in her Dreſs, and trifles away ſo many Hours in admiring herſelf, and being glavered by her Maid, that ſhe always comes into Church, when the reſt of the Congregation are intent upon their Devotions;

   1745, The trial of the Honourable Mrs. Gloriana Strut, before Lord Peter, chairman of the committee, held in the council-chamber, near the gates of paradise, page 10

   No doubt the users of hackney-coaches “glavered” on the users of glass-coaches. To glaver, need we say, was to fawn — with words of glozing courtesy, to flatter deceitfully.

   1900 January 20, “In a Glass Coach”, in The Academy, page 48

   Synonyms: jolly, lay it on thick, puff, brush up to, collogue, flatter, flatterize, gloze