different between curdle vs clabber

English

Etymology

Metathesis of earlier dialectal cruddle, crudle, equivalent to curd +? -le (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.d?l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d?l

Verb

curdle (third-person singular simple present curdles, present participle curdling, simple past and past participle curdled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)

   Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
3. (transitive) To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly

Derived terms

• blood-curdling
• curdled

Translations

Anagrams

• crudle, curled

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