Obs. rare–1. [cf. Irish clabar mud, dirt, filth; clabbery, clobbery, muddy, in Lowland Sc. and dial. of Ulster.] The rabble, the ‘unwashed.’
1577. Stanyhurst, Descr. Irel., in Holinshed, VI. 29. The lobbish and desperat clobberiousnesse, taking the matter in dudgeon … knockt their seneschall on the costard.
