clarty

/ (ˈklɑːtɪ, Scottish ˈklærtɪ) /

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adjective clartier or clartiest

Scot and Northern English dialect dirty, esp covered in mud; filthy

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Words nearby clarty

Clarksville, claro, clarsach, clarthead, clarts, clarty, clary, -clase, clash, Clashing Rocks, -clasis

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How to use clarty in a sentence

At the opposite side of the ford we reached a little inn, as dirty and clarty as all the inns are.
James Geikie|Marion I. Newbigin
The first purchase was, as we have seen, the hundred odd acres of Clarty Hole.
Abbotsford|Anonymous
In spite of all its manifest drawbacks, "Clarty Hole," appealed to Scott.
Highways and Byways in The Border|Andrew Lang
It stands on low level ground, for it is redeemed out of a duckpond, out of Clarty hole.
The Spell of Scotland|Keith Clark

Abbotsford was Cartley Hole first—not Clarty—which is a mere vulgar play on the original.
In the Border Country|W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett