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clavering

clavering is the present participle and gerund of claver.

Meaning of claver

Verb

claver (third-person singular simple present clavers, present participle clavering, simple past and past participle clavered)

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

See all 3 meanings of claver

Proper noun capitalized: Clavering

Clavering

  1. A surname.
  2. A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL4731).
  3. A community in Georgian Bluffs township, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.

Questions about clavering

What does clavering mean?
Clavering means a surname.
What is clavering the present participle and gerund of?
Clavering is the present participle and gerund of claver.
What part of speech is clavering?
Clavering is a proper noun.

Words near clavering in the dictionary

  1. claver
  2. Claverdon
  3. clavered
  4. Claverham
  5. Claveria
  6. clavering
  7. Claverley
  8. Claverol
  9. clavers
  10. Claverton
  11. claves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clavering (page history and authors); Clavering (page history and authors); claver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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