to clabber

Examples

• All

• After a cold corn pone and a bowl of clabbered milk for lunch, I came back to look at the wreck again and watch the empty sky.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I tried recipe 1; mine did not gel or look like thick goop. It looks clabbered (like clabbered milk) or slightly curdled.

  Blog text (18)

• I tried recipe 1; mine did not gel or look like thick goop. It looks clabbered (like clabbered milk) or slightly curdled.

  Blog text (18)

• Livid fungi mount up through the clabbered mud, hooded and erect, in impure pink and magenta.

  Fiction book (1993)

• He poured the milk into a bowl and left it on the counter until it started to clabber.

• The milk will clabber if left out of the fridge for too long.

• After a few hours at room temperature, the fresh milk began to clabber and develop a sour smell.

Synonyms

C

to curdle

vsto clabber

13 4.1

To become thick and form small lumps, like milk when it turns sour

forms curds specifically through souring rather than any cause

C

to clot

vsto clabber

8 5.6

To become thick and form lumps in a liquid, for example blood or milk

applies specifically to milk turning sour and forming curds rather than any fluid

C

to clabber up

vsto clabber

• Archaic

9.9

To become thick and lumpy, like milk that goes sour

means the same but is a more informal spoken form

Phrasal Verbs

C

to clabber up

• Archaic

9.9

To become thick and lumpy, like milk that goes sour

How Curdled

to clabber

• Archaic

1 9.9

to curdle

13 4.1

sour

50 1.0

to thicken

35 2.3

Surface Forms

Etymology