bonny-clapper n.
1. sour buttermilk.
Irish Masque (1692) 374: pat: Tey drinke no bonny clabbe, i’fayt, now. don: It is better ten usquebagh to daunsh wit, Patrick. | ||
Epigrams IV No. 6: Bisket we like, and Bonny Clabo heere. | ||
New Inn I i: It is against my freehold [...] To drink such balderdash, or bonny-clabber! | ||
Don Zara Del Fogoy 17: Both Brandy-wine and Aqua-vitae [...] As plentiful as Bonniclabber. | ||
Hic et Ubique V ii: De Cow dat make de butter-milk, and de bonny clabber for dy child. | ||
‘Iter Hibernicum’ in Carpenter Verse in English from Tudor & Stuart Eng. (2003) 389: And saw them with no little Clatter / Make Boneclabbour, and churn Butter. | ||
The Committee V i: I’le put you, Sir, where you shall have worse liquor, Then your Bonny-Clabber. | ||
Hogan-Moganides 32: They brought to State Monopoly [...] Curds and Whey, and Churns, and Cream pots, Which to prevent a subtile Drab Found out the Art of Bana-Clab. | ||
Bog Witticisms 48: Vee will be for mauking a Daury in Lincoln-Inn-Fields be Chreest [...] And we vill shing Curds and Crame by Chreest, and Buttar and Eggs, Bony-Clabber, and Tiff, untel de Coow shall have Cauf. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew. | ||
in Wit’s Cabinet 120: I shall get you good Bonny clabber. | ||
Eng. Poets IX (1810) 284/1: Pudding and beef I love; and cannot stoop To recommend your bonny-clapper soup. | ‘Mully of Mountown’ in Chalmers||
Amorous Bugbears 11: The Sawnies and Jockies of North-Britain, would have swore, by the Complexion of his Masque [...] that he had fed on nothing but Bonny-clapper. | ||
Eng. Poets (1810) XI 470/2: We scorn, for want of talk, to jabber / Of parties o’er our bonny-clabber. | ‘Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy’ in Chalmers||
‘An Irish Wedding’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 112: From thick Bonny-Clauber, Medicine for Witches / [...] / Good Lord deliver us. | ||
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[jest-book title] The irish miscellany, or Teagueland jests [...] coullected bee de grete Caare and Painsh-Tauking of oour Laurned Countree-Maun, Mac O Bonniclabbero of Drogheda, Knight of the Mendicant Order. | ||
Pronouncing Dict. 58/2: Bonny-clabber, Sour buttermilk. | ||
Spirit of Irish Wit 221: Ye slabber up wickedness as if it was buttermilk or bonnaugh clabber. | ||
Phelam O’Gimblet 20: What pleasure to see her lips jabber [...] And their taste is just like bonny-clabber. | ||
Gloss. (1888). | ||
Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 73: The change might give a few persons some cream, all the rest would git nothin but skim milk and bonny clabber. | ||
Hbk of Phrases 98: Bonny-clabber, thick milk from which the whey is drained. | ||
Staffs. Sentinel 19 Apr. 4/2: The milk brought to your door in the morning [...] will frequently go our [...] what some people call ‘bonny-clapper’. | ||
On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas 152: He was engaged in wharehousing a bowl of clabber. | ||
Mohave Co. Miner (Mineral Park, AZ) 30 Sept. 2/2: Supper will be [...] chicken and dumplings, and coffee and clabber. | ||
DN II:v 295: barney clapper, n. Bonney clabber, thick soured milk. | ‘Cape Cod Dialect’ in||
DN III:i 75: clabber, n. Sour milk composed of curd and whey which are not yet separated. ‘I like clabber’. | ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in||
Eng. As We Speak It In Ireland (1979) 219: Bonnyclabber; thick milk. | ||
Ulysses 403: No dollop this but thick rich bonnyclaber. | ||
Rainbow in Morning (1965) 81: He’s ugly enough to turn sweet milk to clabber. | ||
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1995) 30: If you want to see me jabber / Set me down to uh bowl uh clabber. | ||
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 204: The first time I saw her she was floating downstream, / With a belly full of clabber and a cunt full of cream. | ||
in Book of Negro Folklore 427: If you want to see me jabber / Set me down to uh bowl uh clabber. | ||
Flesh Peddlers (1964) 294: We live off [...] Cottage cheeses, clabber, nature’s products. | ||
Notes for Gloss. of Barbadian Dial. 20: Bonny-clabber. Milk naturally clotted on souring. | ||
(con. 1941) Gunner 237: They accepted Gunner with a guileless camaraderie, offering him bites of leathery clabber bread. | ||
Midnight Verdict 27: Move, or I’ll drag you through the clabber. | ||
I See Da Sea Rise 106: clava – skim milk. |
2. generic for an Irish person.
Teagueland Jests I 70: Out, you Lousie Bogg-trotting Skip [...] marry troop up, Bonny-clapper. |