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Definition of Clabbering
1. clabber [v] - See also: clabber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clabbering
Literary usage of Clabbering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"... noise people make, who are talking in a language we do not understand ;" Gall.
; synon. clabbering. HALLION, НАШЛИ. *. 1. A clown. Gall. Roxb. 2. ..."
2. Dictionary of Latin Synonymes: For the Use of Schools and Private Students by Ludwig Ramshorn, Francis Lieber (1841)
"... chattering, the Scottish clabbering, the German plappern, and similar words
of so many other languages, indicates the open sound ; hence, ..."
3. Elements of Agriculture, Southern and Western by W. C. Welborn, H. Ness, Charles Emerson Sanborn, R. P. Marstellar (1908)
"... some more in thoroughly cleaned pans, and heat some more milk to 160 degrees
Fahrenheit, and observe how long each lot will keep before clabbering. ..."
4. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1850)
"I succeeded in clabbering to the summit of the north "Butte," from which I had
an uninterrupted view of forty miles in every direction, ..."
5. Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture by Indiana State Board of Agriculture (1886)
"When the cream has soured, but before any whey has separated from it, which almost
immediately follows its "clabbering,17 it should be churned if the best ..."
6. The Desert Fiddler: Photoplay Title, Percy by Percy (Motion picture)., William Henry Hamby (1921)
"... Reedy clabbering in his coco now?" He grinned impudently. Jenkins frowned.
His dignity was not to be so trifled with. "Sit down," he ordered. ..."
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