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clabbering up

clabbering up is the present participle and gerund of clabber up.

Meaning of clabber up

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

Questions about clabbering up

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

Words near clabbering up in the dictionary

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

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