clishmaclaver
English
Noun
clishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)
- (Scotland) Gossip; silly chatter.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 271:
- “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 2008, p. 271:
Scots
Noun
clishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)
- Gossip; idle talk.
- A curse on dull and drawlin' Whig, the whinin' rantin' low deceiver, wi' heart sae black and look sae big, and cantin' tongue o' clishmaclaver.