Meaning & use

clabber

noun·Advanced

Milk that has thickened and soured naturally, curdling into a soft, lumpy mass.

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Her grandmother still made biscuits using clabber instead of buttermilk.

Left out overnight in the summer heat, the milk turned to clabber by morning.

A note on using this word

Clabber can also be used as a verb meaning to curdle or thicken, as in 'the milk began to clabber on the counter'.

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Another way to use it

2. verb

To curdle or thicken, as milk does when it sours.

Warm weather made the cream clabber much faster than it normally would.

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