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clarty

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adjective clartier · clartiest · clartie · clerty · clorty · clurty

  1. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Sticky and foul; dirty, filthy, muddy. 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.

    Similar: befouled, besmirched, clarty, cruddy, dirtsome, dirty, foul, grotty, grubby, horry, icky, lousy

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@misc{clarty_2026,
  title = {clarty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/clarty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}