clabber

Other forms of clabber

plural

clabbers·

past tense

clabberred·

present participle

clabberring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clabber

What does clabber mean?

clabber means "raw milk that has soured and thickened". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clabber?

clabber has 2 syllables: clab-ber. The stress falls on "clab".

What is another word for clabber?

Close synonyms include curdle, clot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clabber a common word?

clabber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.