Bonnyclabber

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Sour, soured, fermented or curdled milk; acidophilus milk. Scotland, US, dialectal, uncountable

Etymology

Said to be from Irish bainne (“milk”) + clábair (“muddied”) (see English clabber) or Scots Gaelic cognates thereof, with the anglicization of the first element influenced by bonny.

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