The Proclaimers' greatest hit I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) includes the line And if I haiver, yeah, I know I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be the man who's haiverin' to you. Haivering?
haiver &c; haver vti 1 talk in a foolish or trivial way, speak nonsense la18-. 2 (1) make a fuss about nothing, make a pretence of being busy la19-, now Ayr Uls. (2) dawdle, potter about; lounge la19-, now Ayr Uls. Concise Scots Dictionary
If haiver is current in Ayrshire, I wonder why I never heard it growing up. Mom's from Ayrshire. And there was certainly enough haivering in our house.
Douglas