Noun: clabber
Sample Sentences
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Even butter had proved beyond her means, for the milk she had tried to churn had never firmed up beyond the consistency of runny clabber. [1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 25:]
Nouns inflected like clabber
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Shortening of bonny clabber, from Irish bainne clábar (“mud, thick milk for churning”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof; the latter is probably related to láib (“dirt, mud, filth”). See: Irish Nouns '
bainne'.
Verbs referencing "clabber"
English Nouns
bonnyclabber.