| / English Dictionary |
CLAVER
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Talk socially without exchanging too much information
Example:
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
Synonyms:
chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "claver" is one way to...):
converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "claver"):
jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
