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clabber up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become sour or curdled
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To turn sour; to become unpleasant
3. To look (as clouds gather, etc) like rain is imminent.
   • ... clouds began clabbering up on the south-western horizon, and the sky became more and more lowery. It seemed likely that something dramatic might happen, so late in the afternoon I put on my bathing suit, told Beth to close the[…] 2018 July 12, G.E. Bentley, Jr, Boondoggles: Travels of a Restless Professor, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 12:
   • the weather's clabbering up to rain; the clouds are clabbering up
   • "You mean a storm's clabbering up." 2022 July 1, Larry Beckett, American Cycle, Running Wild, LLC, →ISBN, page 166:
   • "[It's] clabbering up to rain, looks like," he muttered,[…] 2003, Ivan Doig, Prairie Nocturne: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 311:

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