clart
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /klɑːt/
clart (plural clarts)
- A daub.
- a clart of grease
- (now Scotland, northern England) Sticky mud, mire or filth.
- (Geordie, pejorative) A person who is unclean.
- (Geordie, pejorative) A fool.
clart (clarts, present participle clarting; past and past participle clarted)
- (transitive, now Scotland, northern England) To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 43:
- Chris boiled water in kettles for hours and hours and then towels came down, towels clairted with stuff she didn't dare look at, she washed them quick and hung them to dry.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 43:
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