clabber
clabber Lexical Profile
clabber Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Unpasteurized milk that has naturally soured and thickened to the consistency of a firm curd or yogurt.
"In traditional rural kitchens, cooks used fresh clabber alongside baking soda to leaven biscuits and cornbread."
Irish Thick, sticky mud or mire, especially on an unpaved road or farmyard.
"After three days of autumn rain, the lane leading to the pasture was ankle-deep in clabber."
American A trick-taking card game related to belote, played with a 32-card deck in which the jack and nine of the trump suit are the highest-ranking cards.
"On winter evenings, the neighbors gathered around the kitchen table for several lively hands of clabber."
• verb
To curdle or thicken as it sours (of milk), or to cause milk to curdle.
"Left out on the warm counter overnight, the raw milk began to clabber by morning."
• Rhymes for clabber
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 17th century from Irish clabar ('mud' or 'thick sour milk'), shortened from earlier English 'bonnyclabber' (from Irish bainne clabair, literally 'thickened milk').