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. (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.]

Derived terms

• clarty-paps

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Scots

Adjective

clarty (comparative mair clarty, superlative maist clarty)

1. dirty, messy, sticky, like honey.