Definitions
Etymologies
- From clart + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Here, I may not know what clarty means when I read "Great clarty footprints all through the hall" it thrills me, nonetheless.”
“Not but what even a clarty gown would be better than what ye've got on.”
“Puir clarty bugger, " Ian said, shaking his head mournfully.”
“Better to give the real, the only excuse, and say that the soil is so -- no, not adhesive, not sticky, not tenacious, but, to use a word ten thousand times more expressive than these, so _clarty_.”
“Said he to me whiles you were to your bed and he was waiting on his dinner, “The poor-spirited clarty gowk!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clarty’.
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Grounded Words
an Eckhartian exercise of grinding
grind, grist, refrain, ground, grit, mitochondrion, groats, grout, gruel, great, gruesome, gravel and 162 more...
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Lessons of Wordie / Wordnik
Words and concepts I learned on Wordie, or happened upon as I roamed through dictionaries and websites seeking ammunition.
usquebaugh, baugh, plunderbunny, plinthiform, hendiatris, buckjumper, peripetia, trenchmore, antifogmatic, felon, whitlow, paronychia and 152 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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jabberwordie
elby-bone, nerble, chickenbutt, luff, ya-cha-cha-cha, yanno, prolly, embiggen, vittles, hoobedoo, thing-a-ma-jig, sticky bun and 77 more...
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words i rather like
plethora, esoteric, malaise, tangential, moribund, cuspid, quadrilateral, shirk, tea, petrochemical, intonation, bazouki and 20 more...
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tyke chelp
Yorkshire dialect words.
Tyke is a Yorkshire person.
Chelpin' is talking.scarborough warning, tyke, chelp, chelpin', 'appen, bagsey, bazzerking, croggy, dursn't, eeh by gum, flaysome, goffs and 26 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for clarty.
brandelion I like this one. Very complimentary to 'manky'. May 14, 2008
gangerh Also Yorkshire - 'dirty, muddy, sticky'. Feb 4, 2008
bilby Scots - messy, smeared. See clart. Dec 5, 2007