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clabbering

clabbering is the present participle and gerund 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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Phrases with clabbering

Questions about clabbering

What is clabbering the present participle and gerund of?
Clabbering is the present participle and gerund of clabber.

Words near clabbering in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clabbering (page history and authors); clabber (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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