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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Happened across this entry in Wikipedia and it seems to have some eggcornicity to it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clabber_%28food%29
“Unlike many Southern dishes, which can ascribe their roots to African origins, clabber appears to have come from the many Scottish nannies who at one time took care of the children of the Virginia gentry. In fact, clabber is still sometimes referred to as bonny clabber (originally “bainne clà bar”, from Scottish Gaelic bainne – milk , and clà bar – mud). Clabber passed into Scots and Anglo-Irish meaning wet, gooey mud, though it is commonly used now in the noun form to refer to the food or in the verb form “to curdle”. In France an almost identical food is known as Crème fraîche.”
Bonny of course is thought of as the Scottish way of saying pretty, which may be an imagery alteration in this phrase. Anyway, just thought it was interesting.
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I enjoyed this “bonny” eggcorn when I came upon it by a search through the archives. The following uses of the great word “clabbered” are not eggcorns, just malapropistic* substitutions for “clapboard”, but quite amusing nonetheless:
I recently came into possession of an old 1920 clabbered house. (http://www.bobvila.com/BBS/Redwood_Lath … F6316.html)
It appeared the fire started in the living room of the single-story gray clabbered house, around a cluster of electronic equipment, (http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/dog8teen)
Mr. Brandgard said if you have a clabbered house, then the overhang is really out farther than it is with the brick.
(http://www.townofplainfield.com/main/in … =2&id=2715)
maybe 10 true ughits
* malapropriate? malapropositional?Last edited by burred (2009-03-22 18:50:36)
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the Vermont barn and clapperboard hotel
http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/the … on%29.html
Interesting malaprop in the context of movies and show biz. The malaproposterous clapperboard house is common on the web.
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