claverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈklævɚ/

名詞

claver (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 clavers)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers.

動詞

claver (三人称単数 現在形 clavers, 現在分詞 clavering, 過去形および過去分詞形 clavered)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To gossip or chit-chat.

名詞

claver (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of clover.
   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “[A Paraphrase upon the Second Booke of the Psalmes of David.] Psalme LXV.”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC, page 101:

     He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.

アナグラム

• calver, carvel