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Word: clabber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...realized that none of the existing dialect grammars or dictionaries actually contained forms that were relevant today; they were all based on the speech of old white farmers from the 1920s…how many students today know what a whiffletree or bonny-clabber are?” Vaux wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vaux Conducts Survey for Online Dialect Atlas | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a whiffletree is a crossbar on a plough, while bonny-clabber is a type of sour milk...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vaux Conducts Survey for Online Dialect Atlas | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

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