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adj
Sticky and foul; dirty, filthy, muddy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: befouled, besmirched, clarty, cruddy, dirtsome, dirty, foul, grotty, grubby, horry, icky, lousy, manky, nasty, seamy, soiled, sordid, squalid, sullied, unclean, unwashed, yucky
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English clart Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English clarty From clart + -y.
