clarty

comparative clartier · superlative clartiest · alternative clartie · alternative clerty · alternative clorty · alternative clurty

1. Northern EnglandScotlandUKdialectalSticky 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.

   [1846, James Orchard Halliwell, “CLART”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 252, column 1

   Synonyms: befouled, besmirched, cruddy, dirtsome, dirty, foul, grotty, grubby