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clartier

clartier is the comparative form of clarty.

Meaning of clarty

Adjective

clarty (comparative clartier, superlative clartiest)

  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.[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...

Questions about clartier

What is clartier the comparative form of?
Clartier is the comparative form of clarty.

Words near clartier in the dictionary

  1. clarsachs
  2. clarseach
  3. clarseachs
  4. clart
  5. clarted
  6. clartier
  7. clartiest
  8. clarting
  9. clarts
  10. clarty
  11. clary

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