Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly Southern, Midland, & Western U.S. Sour, curdled milk. Also called regionally thick milk.
- v. To curdle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as bonnyclabber.
- To become thick in the process of souring: said of milk.
- n. Idle or noisy talk; jabber.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Milk curdled so as to become thick.
- v. To become clabber; to lopper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. raw milk that has soured and thickened
- v. turn into curds
Etymologies
- From Goidelic clàbar or Irish clábar ("mud"). (Wiktionary)
- Short for bonnyclabber. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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
“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.”
“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
“You clabber some soymilk I used vanilla with of cider vinegar in order to mimic buttermilk.”
“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?
“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.”
“* 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.”
“* 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”
“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.”
“I liked the last description of people least of all; I could not abide their yellow faces, or their ceaseless clabber.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clabber’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Davenport
words looked up recently from reading Guy Davenport
flenite, sampan, provender, comitatus, cycladic, surd, scialytic, lignite, plangencies, fugal, zamindary, macaque and 112 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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redtagevent's Words
exiguous, numen, recondite, concatenate, tuistic, interstitial, peroration, asperity, alacrity, expatiate, farouche, rhodomontade and 112 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
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trufutant's Words
conundrum, nonsense, foolishness, swell, cacophony, grizzled, hoary, despot, bloke, ravenous, sot, quirt and 83 more...
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Stomach turners
These make me uncomfortable or queasy.
killcow, adipocere, roman shower, copremesis, ascites, scaphism, tomalley, gleet, tyremesis, casu marzu, vomitive, paragonimiasis and 11 more...
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words of strong character
thaumaturge, tenebrous, zeitgeist, incunabula, opine, pylon, latent, nexus, ectopic, maelstrom, pyre, acerbic and 68 more...
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Gustatories
alimentation, appetence, appetency, autophytic, bacciferous, brewis, bodega, clabber, confiture, comfit, flitch, gammon and 10 more...
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Unusual Words
katzenjammer, waylay, insipid, endocarp, gaily, turtling, bulbul, Morgan, clabber, phonetician, hatband, hippopotomonstros... and 9 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Schlockie: The Dark Half
Words and citations from Stephen King's 'The Dark Half'.
golf lies, dimbulb, boneatorium, perp, yea, lit, moulage, crawdaddy, dumpatorium, bank-teller, exercise wheel, presque vu and 34 more...
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lex's Words
bosky, aphelion, illumine, vainglorious, terpsichorean, caduceus, nepenthe, fey, encomium, stygian, tommyrot, calumny and 21 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for clabber.

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