clabber

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God bless you Go back with him not," said Peter, "he is one of those whom I like not, one of the clibberty-clabber, as Master Ellis Wyn observes--turn not with that man Go not back with him," said Winifred.

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  1. noun Chiefly Southern, Midland, & Western U.S. Sour, curdled milk. Also called regionally thick milk.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb To curdle.

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  • I could do no less than open a bottle of “Liebfraumilch” in such a place, but it proved to be a near neighbour to bonny-clabber. —  A Residence in France
  • Because the bacteria in buttermilk grow much faster at room temperature than those in yogurt, do not incubate longer than 8 hours or warmer than 70 F or the milk may over adicify and begin to clabber. —  doggdot.us
  • Morrie should die after just three pages of that bowl of clabber referred to as a book.
  • Critical interest and popular response came together in praise of Heaney's work, which captured a County Derry childhood in what he called "the sucking clabber" of a rich, guttural, elemental, and vivid music. —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • God bless you Go back with him not," said Peter, "he is one of those whom I like not, one of the clibberty-clabber, as Master Ellis Wyn observes--turn not with that man Go not back with him," said Winifred. —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
 

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