clabber up

present singular third person clabbers up · participle present clabbering up · participle past clabbered up · past clabbered up

1. intransitiveTo become sour or curdled
2. figurativelyintransitiveTo 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

   3 more examples

   "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

   ... 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