clishmaclaver
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of clishmaclaver
1720–30; clish(-clash) gossip (gradational compound based on clash ) + -ma- (< ?) + claver
Example Sentences
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Prince Rose-Red talked without one second's intermission the whole time I was dressing him; and I allowed it, as papa and Una were not here to be disturbed by the clishmaclaver.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
Houts-touts, gentlemen," quo' I, "what's the use of a' this clishmaclaver?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 by Various
Ye mind what he said o' Prince Geordie: 'Yet mony a ragged cowte's been known To mak a noble aiver; And ye may doucely fill a throne, For a' their clishmaclaver.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
George the Fort' didna fill the throne verra doucely for a' their clishmaclaver, and I don't think young Gourlay'll fill the pulpit verra doucely for a' ours.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
And such a clishmaclaver as that man made!
From Dear Enemy by Webster, Jean
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