clabber

English

Alternative forms

• clauber

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish clábar (“mud”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/

  Rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)

Noun

clabber (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• bonnyclabber

Translations

curdled milk

• Arabic: لَبَن (ar) m (laban)
• Bulgarian: ки́село мля́ко n (kíselo mljáko)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝乳 (níngrǔ)

• French: crème fraîche (fr) f, lait aigre (fr) m
• German: Sauermilch f, Dickmilch (de) f
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• Istriot: stròussia
• Latvian: rūgušpiens m
• Portuguese: coalhada (pt) f
• Russian: простоква́ша (ru) f (prostokváša), ки́слое молоко́ n (kísloje molokó)
• Scottish Gaelic: bainne clàbar
• Ukrainian: кисля́к (uk) m (kyslják)

Verb

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 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.

Anagrams

• cabbler, crabble