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bonny-clabber Anglo-Irish.|ˈbɒnɪˈklæbə(r)|
Forms: 7 bonneyclabber, bon(n)iclabber, bonny-clabbore, bony-clabo, 7–8 bonny clabber, 8 bonnaclaber, 7–9 bonniclapper, bonnyclabber.
[a. Irish bainne milk, claba thick. (O'Reilly).]
Milk naturally clotted or coagulated on souring; called in Scotland loppert or lappert milk.
1631B. Jonson New Inn i. i, To drink such balderdash, or bonny-clabber. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creat. v. 36 They would eate the sowrest Bonniclapper. 1635Strafford Lett. (1739) I. 441 All the comfort I have is a little Bonneyclabber..it is the bravest, freshest drink you ever tasted. 1691Tryon Wisd. Dictates 152 Bonniclabber is nothing else but Milk that has stood till it is sower, and become of a thick slippery substance. 1716T. Ward Eng. Ref. 234 Curds, Cream, and Hatted-Bonnaclaber, Wou'd make a hungry Parson Caper. 1730Swift Answ. Craftsman ad fin., The people live with comfort on potatoes and bonny-clabber. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 603/2, I had so much bonny-clabber, or curdled milk.
attrib.1689G. Harvey Cur. Dis. Expect. vi. 38 These Bonny-Clabber Physicians are deservedly censured Criminal. |