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clatfart

clatfart noun: gossip.

Noun

clatfart (uncountable)

  1. (UK, regional) Gossip.
    • The Guild was called by some hostile husbands, who found their wives getting too independent, the "clat-fart" shop—that is, the gossip-shop.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
    • Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC

Forms of clatfart

alternative formclat-fart

Questions about clatfart

What does clatfart mean?
Clatfart means gossip.
What part of speech is clatfart?
Clatfart is a noun.

Words near clatfart in the dictionary

  1. clastosome
  2. clastosomes
  3. clasts
  4. clat
  5. clatchy
  6. clatfart
  7. clathraceous
  8. clathrarian
  9. clathrate
  10. clathrate compound
  11. clathrate compounds

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