What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Oliver vs Cliver - What's the difference?

oliver | cliver |

As adjectives the difference between oliver and cliver

is that oliver is drunk, pissed while cliver is clever.

As a proper noun Oliver

is a given name derived from Germanic.

As a noun oliver

is a small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.

oliver

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * : Act I, Scene II:
    • England all Olivers and Rowlands bred / During the time Edward the Third did reign.
  • * 1838 :
    • 'My name is Oliver', sir,' replied the little invalid: with a look of great astonishment. ''''Oliver''',' said Mr. Brownlow; ''''Oliver''' what? '''Oliver''' White, eh?' 'No, sir, Twist, ' Oliver Twist.' 'Queer name!' said the old gentleman. 'What made you tell the magistrate your name was White?'
  • * 1991 , Talking It Over , Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0224031570, page 13 :
    • And Oliver suits me, don't you find? It rather goes with my dark, dark hair and kissable ivory teeth, my slim waist, my panache and my linen suit with the ineradicable stain of Pinot Noir.
  • A town in British Columbia, Canada.
  • A ghost town in California.
  • A city in city in Screven County, Georgia.
  • A CDP in Pennsylvania.
  • A village in Wisconsin.

    • Derived terms

    * Oliver Springs * Bath Oliver * a Roland for an Oliver

    Related terms

    * Ollie * Olivia

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) Drunk, pissed.

    • Synonyms

    * Oliver Twist ----

    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.}} ----