Definition of Clarty

1. a. Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.

Definition of Clarty

1. Adjective. (UK dialect Northern England) sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clarty

1. sticky and dirty [adj CLARTIER, CLARTIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clarty

clarkia
clarkias
claro
claro-obscuro
claroes
claros
clarré
clarsach
clarsachs
clart
clarted
clartier
clartiest
clarting
clarts
clarty (current term)
clary
clary sage
clas
clash
clashed
clasher
clashers
clashes
clashier
clashiest
clashing
clashingly
clasht
clashy

Literary usage of Clarty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton: With a Selection from Her by Elizabeth Benger, Elizabeth Hamilton (1818)
""I canna be fashed" became a popular phrase; and the name of Mrs. M'clarty was a passport to attention in the polished circles of fashion, of elegance, ..."

2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"A clarty day." At Morpeth, a few years ago, on a very wet day, the old bellman made his ... If it be clarty, you're sure for to get Weel plaister'd ..."

3. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"T" pudden' 's sair and clarty.' ' It's gi'en agen a bit, ... clarty deed;' doings or circumstances such and so dirty, that some of the dirt may be expected ..."

4. Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases, as Used in by B. Kirkby (1898)
"clarty—Stickey. Yan o' t' finest preachers in a' America was yance writin' aboot a famous puddin', an' he sed it an' clarty ..."

5. Abbotsford by William Shillinglaw Crockett (1905)
"It was a * Lockhart and others have fallen (not unnaturally perhaps) into the error of supposing that' clarty Hole' was the real designation. ..."

6. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"Fine darts' fine speeches or ' honied words." Odds and ends of all sorts,—the south country 'smeary bita,' trifles of no value. clarty, adj. untidy. ..."

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