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Slip is bonny-clabber without its acidity, and so delicate is its flavor that many persons like it just as well as ice cream.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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She's cranky an 'she's sour; I should think she'd ben nussed on bonny-clabber an' green apples.
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He's sourer'n bonny-clabber and meaner'n pig-swill.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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She's cranky an 'she's sour; I should think she'd ben nussed on bonny-clabber an' green apples.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Mis 'Pennell's got a new girl to help round the house, -- one o' them pindlin 'light-complected Smith girls, from the Swamp, -- look's if they was nussed on bonny-clabber.
Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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When the cream has become firm, or bonny-clabber, it is ready for churning.
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It was further evident from the absent-minded way in which he fed Cornwallis, throwing him two dozen instead of one dozen ears of corn; and further still, from the absent-minded way in which he fed himself, leaving his bacon untoasted and eating nothing but bonny-clabber and corn-dodgers.
Burl Morrison Heady 1872
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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 Cooper, J Fenimore 1836
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So although he identifies and illustrates dialectal particularities like bonny-clabber ` clotted milk 'or the usage of self, screel to ` shriek,' or the usage of body, he fails to identify the first pair as being of clear Irish pedigree and the second pair as being clearly Scottish (though there is a mild hint at body).
chained_bear commented on the word bonny-clabber
"'I look forward eagerly to the feast myself; I am sick of eggs and bonny-clabber, and that villain'—nodding in the direction of Killick...—'will bring me nothing else.'"
—Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 80
February 13, 2008