† javerv.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. = jabber v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)]
rabblea1400
javerc1440
jabber1499
jabble1570
jargon1570
gabble1574
gibberish1577
gibber1604
cant1728
jibber1824
rigmarole1831
to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899
garble1913
jibber-jabber1922
jabberwock1959
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 80/2 Clenchyn a-ȝen or chaueryn a-ȝen, for prowde herte, obgarrio.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 257/1 Iangelyn or iaveryn a-ȝen, þat ys clepyd clenchyng a-ȝen, oggarrio. [See also jabber v. 1.]
1834 ‘Shewild Chap’ Sheffield Dial. iii. 50 To ball to Irishmen, or javver abte church rates.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Javver. [In various Yorkshire dialects, in sense To talk idly, garrulously, or noisily.]
Derivatives
javer n. (also javver) dialect
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
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Javver, idle talk.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Javver, bold, assuming talk.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Javver, ‘jaw’ or talk; impudence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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