What context can I use each word in?
Learn when and how to use these words with these examples!
curdled
Example
The milk curdled when I added lemon juice to it. [curdled: verb]
Example
The smell of curdled milk made me nauseous. [curdled: adjective]
clabbered
Example
I prefer to make my own clabbered milk for baking. [clabbered: adjective]
Example
The recipe calls for clabbered cream, which can be hard to find in stores. [clabbered: adjective]
Good things to know
Which word is more common?
Curdled is more commonly used than clabbered in everyday language, especially in the context of spoiled or inedible dairy products.
What’s the difference in the tone of formality between curdled and clabbered?
Neither curdled nor clabbered is particularly formal or informal, and both can be used in various contexts without sounding out of place.
