clibberty

Updated: May 4, 2025

‘Something moves beneath it; and what was that—a groan?’ ‘Shall I get down?’ ‘Of course, Peter, some one may want your help?’ ‘Then I will get down, though I do not like this place; it is frequented by Egyptians, and I do not like their yellow faces, nor their clibberty clabber, as Master Ellis Wyn says. Now I am down. It is a tent, Winifred, and see, here is a boy beneath it.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

'Of course, Peter, some one may want your help? 'Then I will get down, though I do not like this place; it is frequented by Egyptians, and I do not like their yellow faces, nor their clibberty clabber, as Master Ellis Wyn says. Now I am down. It is a tent, Winifred, and see, here is a boy beneath it. Merciful father! what a face.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

"Of course, Peter, some one may want your help." "Then I will get down, though I do not like this place, it is frequented by Egyptians, and I do not like their yellow faces, nor their clibberty clabber, as Master Ellis Wyn says. Now, I am down. It is a tent, Winifred, and see, here is a boy beneath it. Merciful father! what a face!"

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

"Hurl them into our deepest dungeon," said Lucifer, to the fiends, "and don't starve them; we have here neither cats nor rush-lights to give them, but let them have a toad between them, every ten thousand years, provided they are quiet, and do not deafen us with their gibberish and clibberty clabber." Next to these there came, I should imagine, about thirty husbandmen.

Ellis Wynne - The Sleeping Bard: or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell