The story
- Irish · derived frombainne
- English todayclabber
Shortening of bonny clabber, from Irish bainne clábar (“mud, thick milk for churning”) or a Scots Gaelic cognate thereof; the latter is probably related to láib (“dirt, mud, filth”).
Words from the same roots
Irishbainne all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.