clarty (comparative clartier, superlative clartiest)

1. (Britain, Northern England and Scotland dialect) Sticky and foul#Adjective|foul; dirty, filthy, muddy.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:unclean

   • [1847, James Orchard Halliwell, “CLART”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volume II (J–Z), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154 ↗, 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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