clabberとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• clauber

語源

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”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈklæb.ə(ɹ)/

• 韻: -æbə(ɹ)

名詞

clabber (uncountable)

1. Sour or curdled milk.
   • 1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 25:

     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.

関連する語

• bonnyclabber

動詞

clabber (third-person singular simple present clabbers, present participle clabbering, simple past and past participle clabbered)

1. To sour or curdle.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 148:

     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.

派生語

アナグラム

• cabbler, crabble