Meaning & use
clabber
Milk that has thickened and soured naturally, curdling into a soft, lumpy mass.
See it in a sentence
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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