clabber

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Shortening of bonny clabber, from Irish bainne clábar (mud, thick milk for churning) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof; the latter is probably related to láib (dirt, mud, filth).

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Noun[edit]

clabber (uncountable)

  1. Sour or curdled milk.
  2. Wet clay or mud.

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Verb[edit]

clabber (third-person singular simple present clabbers, present participle clabbering, simple past and past participle clabbered)

  1. To sour or curdle.
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 148:
      They always had more milk than they needed and often entire buckets would clabber and one of her brothers would carry it out to the bunkhouse for the vaqueros.

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