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prettygoodword) wrote2013-03-21 07:31 am
prettygoodword) wrote2013-03-21 07:31 am
clart
clart (KLART) - n., (Scot.) sticky mud, mire, or filth; a daub (of something unclean); (Geordie) a dirty person, a fool. v., (Scot. & N. Eng.) to daub, smear, or spread with mud etc., to dirty.
Somehow I'd gotten the impression that a clart was a divot or a lump of mud, but now. Geordie is the dialect of Tyneside area of Newcastle-and-environs in northeastern England. This is another word that formerly was general English that now survives only in Scotland and the north -- this one dating back to Middle English, but the origin before that is unknown.
---L.
Somehow I'd gotten the impression that a clart was a divot or a lump of mud, but now. Geordie is the dialect of Tyneside area of Newcastle-and-environs in northeastern England. This is another word that formerly was general English that now survives only in Scotland and the north -- this one dating back to Middle English, but the origin before that is unknown.
---L.