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noun
- Northern and Midland U.S. clabber(def 1).
1620s (in shortened form clabber), from Modern Irish bainne “milk” (from Middle Irish banne “drop,” also, rarely, “milk”; cognate with Sanskrit bindu- “drop”) + claba “thick;” cf. Irish and Gaelic clabar “mud,” which sometimes has made its way into English (Yeats, etc.).