name
Meaning 1
A municipality of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
claver
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/ˈklævɚ/
noun
Meaning 2
Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Obsolete form of clover.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 4
To gossip or chit-chat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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verb
Meaning 5
talk socially without exchanging too much information
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, visit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: converse, discourse
Narrower terms: shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots claver.