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Cliver vs Fliver - What's the difference?

cliver | fliver |

As an adjective cliver

is clever.

As a noun fliver is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

cliver

English

Adjective

  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) clever
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Harold Bindloss, title=The Buccaneer Farmer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There's ways a cliver agent can run up a reckoning, and when you want Mireside I'll have to gan." "}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Robert Michael Ballantyne, title=The World of Ice, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Ah, but it's a cliver trick, no doubt of it."}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1861, author=George Eliot, title=Silas Marner, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=For I've often a deal inside me as'll never come out; and for what you talk o' your folks in your old country niver saying prayers by heart nor saying 'em out of a book, they must be wonderful cliver ; for if I didn't know "Our Father", and little bits o' good words as I can carry out o' church wi' me, I might down o' my knees every night, but nothing could I say."}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1831, author=Edward Bulwer-Lytton, title=Eugene Aram, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Oh, they be cliver creturs, and they'll do what they likes with old Nick, when they gets there, for 'tis the old gentlemen they cozens the best; and then," continued the Corporal, waxing more and more loquacious, for his appetite in talking grew with that it fed on,--"then there be another set o' queer folks you'll see in Lunnon, Sir, that is, if you falls in with 'em,--hang all together, quite in a clink.}} ----

    fliver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1943 , Ivar Lund, The end of Lucifer's tail , page 348:
    • He had seated himself in the farmer's old fliver , [and] ridden for some miles.
  • * 2002 , Hartwick New York -- Heart of Otsego County , page 244:
    • A natural born mechanic and tinkerer, he kept many an old fliver on the road.
  • * 2002 , William V. Reynolds, Call of the Pines , page 256:
    • "Come on old fliver . Don't let us down now," he coaxed. But the faithful machine had gone as far as it could. The fuel mix had burned
  • until the last minute. Now the moisture in the tank was too much for the firing system.
  • * 2008 , Isaac Hallenberg, Rustbelt Fables , page 106:
    • But with my new job I was able to buy an old fliver down at Able Andy's car lot.
  • * 2008 , Eds James Lee Hutchinson, Bombs Away: WWII Eighth Air Force Stories , page 270:
    • [...] the twenty-one inch wheels handled the poor roads and the dependable old "fliver " had enough steel in it to build two of today's cars.