different between clabber vs crabber

English

Alternative forms

• clauber

Etymology

From Irish clábar (“mud”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæb.?(?)/

  Rhymes: -æb?(?)

Noun

clabber (uncountable)

1. Sour or curdled milk.
2. Wet clay or mud.

Related terms

• bonnyclabber

Translations

Verb

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 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.

Anagrams

• cabbler, crabble

English

Etymology 1

From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) +? -er.

Noun

crabber (plural crabbers)

1. A person who catches crabs.
   • 1989, National Fisherman (volumes 70-71, page 26)

     Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.

2. (nautical) A boat used for catching crabs.
   • 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

     In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]

Translations

Etymology 2

From crab (“to be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault”) +? -er.

Noun

crabber (plural crabbers)

1. A person who finds fault or criticizes.

   Synonyms: criticizer; see also Thesaurus:complainer