单词 | claver |
释义 | clavern.1 Scottish and north dialect. Idle garrulous talk, to little purpose, or with little sense; an idle story, a piece of idle gossip. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 1722–30 A. Ramsay Parrot Delighted with their various claver. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 326 With clavers and haivers Wearing the time awa'. 1819 T. Carlyle Early Lett. (Norton) I. 230 This is all claver, but it pleases one. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. viii. 180 To carry clashes and clavers up and down. 1829 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in Waverley Novels X. 55 (note) When I was entering life, there was ane Knox deaving us a' wi' his clavers, and now I am ganging out, there is ane Claver'se deaving us a' wi' his knocks. 1889 N.E.D. at Claver Mod. Sc. ‘Muckle claver and little corn,’ said of pulpit eloquence that has little edifying in it; with pun on claver, clover. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † clavern.2 Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 493 Where, as (by Art) one selfly blast breath'd out From panting bellowes, passeth all-about Winde-Instruments; enters by th' vnder Clauers Which with the Keyes the Organ-Maister quauers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † claverv.1 Obsolete exc. dialect. intransitive. To climb, clamber. (Some take it in first quot. as = clutch, claw.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > climb climba1000 clavera1250 clive1340 styc1380 speel1513 ramp1523 scalea1547 climber1573 stem1577 upclimb1845 grimp1893 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 44 Hweðer þe cat of helle claurede [?c1225 Cleo. clachte; c1230 Corpus Cambr. cahte] euer toward hire. & cauhte mid his cleafres hire heorte heaued. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3325 Two kynges ware clymbande, and claverande one heghe. 1423 Kingis Quair clix A quhele, on quhich cleuering I sye A multitude of folk before myn eye. 1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Subjects are clavered up into the Kings Throne, and the King debased below..a free-born subject. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Clavver, to clamber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). claverv.2 Scottish and northern dialect. intransitive. To talk idly, or with little sense; to gossip, palaver, prate. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [verb (intransitive)] > bear tales or rumours talea1225 tittlec1400 twittle1551 tattle1581 clavera1605 gossip1627 twita1643 clasha1689 fetch-and-carry1770 clype1843 clatfart1913 tattle-tale1918 labrish1935 a1605 [implied in: A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 617 An clauering cohoobie.]. a1715 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 395 When ye clatter then, and claver, Ye sprinkle all their necks with slaver. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 18 Clavering about thae auld warld stories. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 213 A worthy minister, as gude a man..as ever ye heard claver in a pulpit. 1850 G. P. R. James Old Oak Chest III. 14 ‘I'm no given to clavering of other people's concerns.’ 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Clavver, to contend, to chatter. Derivatives ˈclaverer n. one who clavers, a babbler. ΚΠ 1606 tr. Rollock on 2 Thess. 140 (Jam.) Busie bodies, clauerers, and pratlers. ˈclavering adj. ΚΠ a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 617 An clauering cohoobie. 1722–30 A. Ramsay Clock & Dial in Fables & Tales Ne'er brag of constant clavering cant. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. v. 131 [King James loq.] Haud your clavering tongue. 1830 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 340 A lang-tongued clavering wife. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11722n.21605v.1a1250v.2a1605 |
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