clart

plural clarts · alternative clairt · alternative clort

1. A daub.

   a clart of grease

2. Northern EnglandScotlandSticky mud, mire or filth.

   I’m but a county Surveyor,– not really at m’ best upon the grand and global type of expedition, content here at home, old Geordie a-slog thro’ the clarts […].

   1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

3. GeordiederogatoryA person who is unclean.
4. GeordiederogatoryA fool.
5. Unwanted stuff; junk; clutter; rubbish; stuff that is in the way.

   I need to get rid of all this clart. (Clearing unwanted items from a table top)

present singular third person clarts · participle present clarting · participle past clarted · past clarted · alternative clairt · alternative clort

1. Northern EnglandScotlandtransitiveTo daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.

   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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 43