bonnyclabber

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Loppered milk is sometimes called bonnyclabber.

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  1. noun New England & Central Atlantic U.S. Thick, soured milk eaten with cream and sugar, honey, or molasses.

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  1. Irish Gaelic bainne clabair : bainne, milk (from Middle Irish, drop, milk, from Old Irish bannae, drop) + probably clabair, genitive of clabar, dasher of a churn.

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  1. Also formerly written bonny clabber, bonniclapper, bonyclabo, etc.: from Irish bainne, milk (cf. baine, comparative of ban, white), + claba, thick mud.
 

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/ˈbɑnɪklæbər/
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