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clarty

British  
/ ˈklærtɪ, ˈklɑːtɪ /

adjective

  1. dialect dirty, esp covered in mud; filthy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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That clarty barm should stain my laurels: But—what'll ye say?

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

That clarty barm should stain my laurels; But—what’ll ye say!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

That clarty barm should stain my laurels, But—what 'ill ye say?

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell

Forby that, I could not let my son mix with their bairns for fear they should teach him the vulgar Thrums words and clarty his blue-velvet suit.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Between the beach and the sea-hill I sat my lane and grat my fill - I was sae clarty and hard and dark, And like the kye in the cow park!

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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