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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
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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