Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sour, curdled milk.
- transitive & intransitive verb To curdle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bonnyclabber . - noun Idle or noisy talk; jabber.
- To become thick in the process of souring: said of milk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To become clabber; to lopper.
- noun Milk curdled so as to become thick.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
sour orcurdled milk - noun wet
clay ormud - verb to
sour orcurdle milk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun raw milk that has soured and thickened
- verb turn into curds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To make cottage cheese, allow a quantity of sour milk to clabber, that is, become curdled, and then place it on the back of the stove in a thick vessel, such as a crock, until the whey begins to appear on the top, turning it occasionally so that it will heat very slowly and evenly.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
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Page 7 the full-flowering clover-field, or to the plantation nursery to see the old mammies feed the babies with "clabber," with bread well crumbed in it, or cush, made of bread soaked in gravy and softly mashed.
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Carlene Godwin Finney to clabber gangrene close down her place her precious private pleasing place to fill the house to the rafters up past the dimpled tin roof with a rotting smell that stayed for nine days that mortgaged a room on our memories and did not die along with her
“The Afterbirth, 1931″–the Poem : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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You clabber some soymilk I used vanilla with of cider vinegar in order to mimic buttermilk.
Yellow cupcakes( vegan) with choc.frosting( not vegan)..... Randi 2008
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You clabber some soymilk I used vanilla with of cider vinegar in order to mimic buttermilk.
Archive 2008-01-01 Randi 2008
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Hers had fowding hoel in clabber n maded nother hoel fru insal… innsl… um, pinkee stuff adn vaypur barryer.
Lolcat 100 Calorie pak - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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* The buttermilk can be substituted with 1 1/4 cups of milk at room temperature, mixed with two tablespoons white vinegar, left to clabber for 10 minutes.
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* The buttermilk can be substituted with 1 1/4 cups of milk at room temperature, mixed with two tablespoons white vinegar, left to clabber for 10 minutes. rich buttermilk waffles was originally published on smittenkitchen.com all content and photos © 2006 - 2009 smitten kitchen
smitten kitchen | rich buttermilk waffles | print template 2007
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For eight long years there has been no debate and before then it was just a warmed up milk that began to clabber; really there has been no real debate since the six or eight year period beginning in 1966.
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A perfect flight would send you whooshing down the slope, over the creek some 30 feet below then back to the starting point where small feet would clabber for purchase lest the voyage start all over again with less velocity.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2005
bilby commented on the word clabber
"Alan Pangborn was neither a coward nor a superstitious countryman who forked the sign of the evil eye at crows and kept his pregnant womenfolk away from the fresh milk because he was afraid they would clabber it."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007
camerado commented on the word clabber
Clabber is a horrible onomatopoeia that sounds like movement within something thick and clabbered, a hand pushing into a thick bowl of clabbered milk. Ugh. It's one of the top words that make me uncomfortable.
December 20, 2008
yarb commented on the word clabber
See also clabber cheese.
December 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word clabber
"Clabber Girl" is a brand of baking powder. Isn't it?
Edit: Yes. Here. Wonder why. Does baking powder cause clabber?
December 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word clabber
This related link might help. Apparently baking powder replaced clabbered milk as a leavening ingredient.
December 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word clabber
Now that's what I call Wordie service. Thanks reesetee. :) For pointing out a page on the very link I pointed out. *is lazy as hell*
December 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word clabber
It was my pleasure. *is sometimes lazy as hell, but in this case is trying to avoid work*
December 23, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word clabber
From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word clabber
Usage on loppered.
May 4, 2010