clarty
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[edit]- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
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[edit]clarty (comparative clartier, superlative clartiest)
- (British, Northern England and Scotland dialect) Sticky and foul; dirty, filthy, muddy.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unclean
- [1846, James Orchard Halliwell, “CLART”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 252, column 1:
- CLART. To spread, smear, or daub. A flake of snow, when it is large and sticks to the clothes, is called a clart. So we have clarts, mud; clarty, muddy, sticky. Clarty-paps, a dirty sloven of a wife.]
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[edit]clarty (comparative mair clarty, superlative maist clarty)
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