clabber

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Goidelic clàbar or Irish clábar (“mud”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/
    Rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)

Noun

clabber (uncountable)

  1. sour or curdled milk
  2. wet clay or mud

Translations

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, p. 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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