clabbern.
/ˈklabə/, U.S. /ˈklæbər/, Irish English /ˈklɒːbər/ 1. dialect. Also clauber. Mud.
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1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. Clabber, any soft dirty matter.
1890 J. Service Thir Notandums 114 Whaur it was a' clauber yesterday, it's as hard as a horn the day.
1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen i. 16 The dead leaves and clauber of four forests Cling to my foot-sole.
1921 G. O'Donovan Vocations v. 83 Good people..that wouldn't throw a lump of soft clauber at a cat.
2. = bonny clabber n., milk naturally curdled.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > curds
curd1378
slipc1425
wrench-milk1510
well curds1538
float-wheyc1550
ricoct1582
curdlea1591
bonny clabber1605
fleeting1611
clabber1634
yearned milk?1635
trouts1683
sweet-cheese1688
earning1744
slip curd1784
1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iii. sig. E4v Healthes in Vsquabaugh, and bonie clabbore.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Clabber or Bonny-clabber.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) at Bonny-clabber It is sometimes called simply clabber.
1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xxx. 354 We feasted heartily on mush~melons and clabber.
Derivatives
clabber v. (transitive and intransitive) to curdle as milk.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [verb (intransitive)] > curdle or become curdled
runeOE
loppera1300
curda1398
to run togethera1398
quaila1425
trout1483
lop1570
turn1577
quar1578
curdle1586
caille1601
to set together1608
set1736
whig1756
shill1876
clabber1880
1880 in Webster's Dict. Suppl.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xix. 222 She needed rain-water, too, to clabber the milk. The milk turned rankly sour in the heat but would not clabber.
1968 Washington Post 5 July A 18/4 Then it had to be left to clabber—or curdle—before it could be churned.
ˈclabbered adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk > curd > coagulated
welledOE
loppereda1300
quailed1440
runned1527
lopper1816
run1859
walled1879
clabbered1921
1921 R. L. Alsaker Eating for Health i. iii. 47 Clabbered milk and buttermilk are easily digested.
clabbery adj. muddy.
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1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down ‘They clodded clabber at me.’ ‘Don't put the dog into that clabbery hole.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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