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Bonnyclabber
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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bonnyclabber
1620s (in shortened form clabber), from Mod.Ir. bainne "milk" (from M.Ir. banne "drop," also, rarely, "milk"; cognate with Skt. bindu- "drop") + claba "thick;" c.f. Ir., Gael. clabar "mud," which sometimes has made its way into English (Yeats, etc.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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