Brewer's: Bonnyclabber

A drink made of beer and buttermilk. (Irish, bainne, milk; claba, thick or thickened.)

With beer and buttermilk, mingled together, ... To drink such ... bonny-clapper.
Ben Jonson: The New Inn, i. 3.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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