clishmaclaver
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]clishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)
- (Scotland) Gossip; silly chatter.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 271:
- “Some people endeavour to defend this, saying, that it assists devotion, and a great deal of idle clish-maclaiver of the same kind […] .”
Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]clishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)