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clartiest

clartiest is the superlative 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 clartiest

What is clartiest the superlative form of?
Clartiest is the superlative form of clarty.

Words near clartiest in the dictionary

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

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