Definitions
showing inventiveness and skill
Word origin
From East Anglian dialectal English cliver (“expert at seizing”), from Middle English cliver (“tenacious”).
Used in a sentence
“My dad is quite clever with his hands, especially at carpentry.”
“a. 1898, Francis James Child (collator), Child's Ballads, 198: "Bonny John Seton", The Highland men, they're clever men At handling sword and shield,”
“clever like a fox”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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