Glaver

Quick meaning: Glaver is a verb meaning (obsolete) To flatter; to wheedle.

Meaning

(obsolete) To flatter; to wheedle.

Example Sentences

Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.

No doubt the users of hackney-coaches “glavered” on the users of glass-coaches. To glaver, need we say, was to fawn — with words of glozing courtesy, to flatter deceitfully.

Luke. Item, that the Honourable Ms. Gloriana Strut is ſo fantaſtical in her Dreſs, and trifles away ſo many Hours in admiring herſelf, and being glavered by her Maid, that ſhe always comes into Church, when the reſt of the Congregation are intent upon their Devotions;

Word Forms

• glavers
• glavering
• glavered

Synonyms for glaver

Depending on context, synonyms include jolly, puff, collogue, flatter, flatterize, gloze.

Related Words

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