clep
verbEtymology From Middle English cleppen, from Old English *cleppan, clæppan, from Proto-West Germanic *klappijan. Cognate with Dutch kleppen (“to chatter”).
1
Dialectal To chatter, gossip, tell tales.
2
Dialectal To tattle.
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