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clabber up

clabber up verb: to become sour or curdled.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To become sour or curdled
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To turn sour; to become unpleasant
  3. To look (as clouds gather, etc) like rain is imminent.
    • the weather's clabbering up to rain; the clouds are clabbering up
    • "You mean a storm's clabbering up."2022 July 1, Larry Beckett, American Cycle, Running Wild, LLC, →ISBN, page 166

Forms of clabber up

third-person singular presentclabbers up
present participleclabbering up
past participleclabbered up
pastclabbered up

Questions about clabber up

What does clabber up mean?
Clabber up means to become sour or curdled.
What part of speech is clabber up?
Clabber up is a verb.
What is the past tense of clabber up?
The past tense of clabber up is clabbered up.

Words near clabber up in the dictionary

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

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