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clorty

clorty is the alternative 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...

Forms of clorty

comparativemore clorty
superlativemost clorty

Questions about clorty

What is clorty the alternative form of?
Clorty is the alternative form of clarty.

Words near clorty in the dictionary

  1. Cloroxes
  2. Cloroxing
  3. clorprenaline
  4. clorsulon
  5. clortermine
  6. clorty
  7. CLOS
  8. clos'd
  9. closability
  10. closable
  11. closant

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