clabber up

English

Verb

clabber up (third-person singular simple present clabbers up, present participle clabbering up, simple past and past participle clabbered up)

  1. (intransitive) To become sour or curdled
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To turn sour; to become unpleasant
  3. To look (as clouds gather, etc) like rain is imminent.
    the weather's clabbering up to rain; the clouds are clabbering up
    • 2022 July 1, Larry Beckett, American Cycle, Running Wild, LLC, →ISBN, page 166:
      "You mean a storm's clabbering up."
    • 2003, Ivan Doig, Prairie Nocturne: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 311:
      "[It's] clabbering up to rain, looks like," he muttered, […]
    • 2018 July 12, G.E. Bentley, Jr, Boondoggles: Travels of a Restless Professor, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 12:
      ... 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 […]
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