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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly Southern, Midland, & Western U.S. Sour, curdled milk. Also called regionally thick milk.
  2. v. To curdle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as bonnyclabber.
  2. To become thick in the process of souring: said of milk.
  3. n. Idle or noisy talk; jabber.

Wiktionary

  1. n. sour or curdled milk
  2. n. wet clay or mud
  3. v. to sour or curdle milk

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Milk curdled so as to become thick.
  2. v. To become clabber; to lopper.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. raw milk that has soured and thickened
  2. v. turn into curds

Etymologies

  1. From Goidelic clàbar or Irish clábar ("mud"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Short for bonnyclabber. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear Usage on loppered. May 3, 2010

  • jaime_d From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport Jan 19, 2010

  • reesetee It was my pleasure. *is sometimes lazy as hell, but in this case is trying to avoid work* Dec 22, 2008

  • chained_bear 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* Dec 22, 2008

  • reesetee This related link might help. Apparently baking powder replaced clabbered milk as a leavening ingredient. Dec 22, 2008

  • chained_bear "Clabber Girl" is a brand of baking powder. Isn't it?

    Edit: Yes. Here. Wonder why. Does baking powder cause clabber? Dec 22, 2008

  • yarb See also clabber cheese. Dec 20, 2008

  • camerado 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. Dec 20, 2008

  • bilby "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. Dec 31, 2007

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