clarty

English

Alternative forms

  • clartie, clerty, clorty, clurty (Scotland)

Etymology

From clart +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti

Adjective

clarty (comparative clartier, superlative clartiest)

  1. (Britain, Northern England and Scotland dialect) sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty
    • 1846, Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words‎, volume 1, page 252:
      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.

Synonyms

  • For semantic relationships of this term, see unclean in the Thesaurus.

Derived terms

  • clarty-paps

Scots

Adjective

clarty (comparative mair clarty, superlative maist clarty)

  1. dirty, messy, sticky, like honey.
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