clabber
English
Alternative forms
- clauber
Etymology
From Irish clábar (“mud”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Noun
clabber (uncountable)
- Sour or curdled milk.
- Wet clay or mud.
Related terms
- bonnyclabber
Translations
curdled milk — see sour milk
Verb
clabber (third-person singular simple present clabbers, present participle clabbering, simple past and past participle clabbered)
- 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.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son (Simon & Schuster 2014), page 148:
Anagrams
- cabbler, crabble