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clabbered

clabbered is the simple past and past participle of clabber.

Meaning of clabber

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

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Adjective

clabbered (comparative more clabbered, superlative most clabbered)

  1. Thickened or curdled.
    • The milk became clabbered.
    • He churned the milk as it soured and clabbered.2010, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Vintage Books, page 82

Forms of clabbered

comparativemore clabbered
superlativemost clabbered

Phrases with clabbered

Questions about clabbered

What does clabbered mean?
Clabbered means thickened or curdled.
What is clabbered the simple past and past participle of?
Clabbered is the simple past and past participle of clabber.
What part of speech is clabbered?
Clabbered is an adjective.

Words near clabbered in the dictionary

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

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