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cliver

cliver adjective: clever.

Adjective

cliver

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) clever
    • There's ways a cliver agent can run up a reckoning, and when you want Mireside I'll have to gan." "1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer
    • "Ah, but it's a cliver trick, no doubt of it."1893, Robert Michael Ballantyne, The World of Ice

Proper noun capitalized: Cliver

Cliver (plural Clivers)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of cliver

pluralClivers

Origin of cliver

Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Kleiber.

Questions about cliver

What does cliver mean?
Cliver means clever.
What part of speech is cliver?
Cliver can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near cliver in the dictionary

  1. clitwad
  2. clitwads
  3. clivable
  4. clival
  5. clive
  6. cliver
  7. clivers
  8. clives
  9. clivi
  10. clivia
  11. clivias

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