clishmaclaver
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prettygoodwordclishmaclaver (klish-muh-KLAY-ver, kleesh-muh-KLAY-ver) - n., gossip; idle or foolish talk.
Now primarily Scots usage. This is a 17th-century expansion of earlier claver (around since the middle ages, now rare even in the north) with clish-clash, an emphatic reduplicative of clash, meaning gossip with a connotation of loud. So, gossip-gossip.
---L.
Now primarily Scots usage. This is a 17th-century expansion of earlier claver (around since the middle ages, now rare even in the north) with clish-clash, an emphatic reduplicative of clash, meaning gossip with a connotation of loud. So, gossip-gossip.
---L.
