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clishmaclavers

clishmaclavers is the plural of clishmaclaver.

Meaning of clishmaclaver

Noun

clishmaclaver (plural clishmaclavers)

  1. (Scotland) Gossip; silly chatter.
    • “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, published 2008, page 271

Questions about clishmaclavers

What is clishmaclavers the plural of?
Clishmaclavers is the plural of clishmaclaver.

Words near clishmaclavers in the dictionary

  1. Clisby
  2. cliseral
  3. clisere
  4. cliseres
  5. clishmaclaver
  6. clishmaclavers
  7. clisospirid
  8. clisospirids
  9. clistocarp
  10. clistocarpous
  11. clistocarps

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