Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Thick, soured milk eaten with cream and sugar, honey, or molasses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milk that is turned or has become thick in the process of souring.
- noun A drink made of beer and buttermilk or soured cream.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply
clabber .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Sour ,soured ,fermented orcurdled milk; acidophilus milk.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Twice a week the children enjoyed a bowl of bonnyclabber or curds, with a little brown sugar sprinkled on the top.
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885
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Some of the blossomy May was left yet on the hawthorns, and over all the sky hovered, with pale-white clouds in pale-blue spaces of air like an inverted lake of bonnyclabber.
Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878
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At sundown he ate a small-sized hoe-cake and a tin pan of bonnyclabber; then observing "That he believed he was put into dis world for nothing but to have trouble," he took to his bed.
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By which invention there is no such thing as a ruined farmer to be seen; but the people live with comfort on potatoes and bonnyclabber, neither of which are vendible commodities abroad.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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In any case, when Irish gulls talk about cottage cheese, they have the decency to call it bonnyclabber.
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Even if we tried to do the best we could for you, all you'd get would be something like skim-milk -- good enough for cottage cheese and bonnyclabber, but nothing like good fresh milk with the cream on it. "
John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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