noun
- thick sour milk that has curdled naturally
Usage: chiefly Southern US
verb
- to curdle or become thick and sour
Usage: chiefly Southern US
Examples
- Grandma made biscuits with fresh clabber from the dairy.
- The milk had turned to clabber after sitting out overnight.
- She used clabber in her cornbread recipe for extra tang.
- The cream will clabber if left at room temperature too long.
- Old-fashioned cooks often preferred clabber over regular buttermilk.
- The milk began to clabber in the warm kitchen.