Clart vs Clary - What's the difference?
clart | clary |
A daub.
Sticky mud, mire or filth.
*1997 , (Thomas Pynchon), Mason & Dixon :
*:I’m but a county Surveyor,– not really at m’ best upon the grand and global type of expedition, content here at home, old Geordie a-slog thro’ the clarts […].
(Geordie, pejorative) A person who is unclean.
(Geordie, pejorative) A fool.
To daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 43:
*:Chris boiled water in kettles for hours and hours and then towels came down, towels clairted with stuff she didn't dare look at, she washed them quick and hung them to dry.
As nouns the difference between clart and clary
is that clart is a daub while clary is clary sage.As a verb clart
is to daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc; to dirty.clart
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Alternative forms
*clairt, (l)Noun
(en noun)- a clart of grease