clabber

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sour or curdled milk. uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Wet clay or mud. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To sour or curdle.
    — They always had more milk than they needed and often entire buckets would clabber and one of her brothers would carry it out to the bunkhouse for the vaqueros.

词形变化

clauber alternative clabbers present,singular,third-person clabbering participle,present clabbered participle,past clabbered past clauber alternative

词汇关系

相关词
bonnyclabber

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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