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English
Etymology
From clart + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
clarty (comparative clartier, superlative clartiest)
- (British, Northern England and Scotland dialect) Sticky and foul; dirty, filthy, muddy.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unclean
, volumes
I (A–I), London:
John Russell Smith,
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→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.]
Derived terms
Scots
Etymology
From clart + -y.
Adjective
clarty (comparative mair clarty, superlative maist clarty)
- dirty, messy, sticky, like honey.