clabber

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/

Definition of clabber

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)Sour or curdled milk.
    “Even butter had proved beyond her means, for the milk she had tried to churn had never firmed up beyond the consistency of runny clabber.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)Sour or curdled milk.
    “Even butter had proved beyond her means, for the milk she had tried to churn had never firmed up beyond the consistency of runny clabber.”
  2. (uncountable)Wet clay or mud.

verb

  1. To sour or curdle.
    “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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Etymology

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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