Glaver vs Glamer - What's the difference?
glaver | glamer |
(obsolete) To prate; to jabber; to babble.
(obsolete) To flatter; to wheedle.
(archaic, Scotland) Noise.
(archaic, Scotland) The visual influence of a charm, causing people to see things differently from what they are. Hence, to cast a glamer is to cause a visual deception.
As a verb glaver
is to prate; to jabber; to babble.As a noun glamer is
noise.glaver
English
Verb
(en verb)- Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. — Wyclif.
- Some slavish, glavering , flattering parasite. — South.
glamer
English
Noun
(head)Descendants
* glamourReferences
* Jamieson, John; Johnstone, John; Longmuir, John (1867).Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language. W.P. Nimmo. pp 231. English nouns