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clabber

/ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/

clabber noun: sour or curdled milk.

Noun

clabber (uncountable)

  1. 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.1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 25
  2. Wet clay or mud.

Verb

clabber (third-person singular simple present clabbers, present participle clabbering, simple past and past participle clabbered)

  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.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 148

clabber meaning in Tamil

clabber in Tamil

சேறு

Forms of clabber

Noun
alternative formclauber
Verb
third-person singular presentclabbers
present participleclabbering
past participleclabbered
pastclabbered

Origin of clabber

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”).

Words formed from clabber

Words that rhyme with clabber

Questions about clabber

What does clabber mean?
Clabber means sour or curdled milk.
What is clabber in Tamil?
Clabber in Tamil is சேறு. See Clabber meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is clabber?
Clabber can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce clabber?
Clabber is pronounced /ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/.

Words near clabber in the dictionary

  1. Claars
  2. Claassen
  3. Claassens
  4. Clabaugh
  5. Clabaughs
  6. clabber
  7. clabber up
  8. clabbered
  9. clabbered up
  10. clabbering
  11. clabbering up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clabber (page history and authors); clabber (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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