clart n.
1. (Ulster) an untidy woman.
![]() | Eng. As We Speak It In Ireland. | |
![]() | My Oul’ Town 82: Don’t take the book by the cover. There’s many a swell of a girl has in her the makin’ of a ‘clart’. | |
![]() | Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 109: I just called her a dirty clart and shattered her eardrums with the loudest tongue-fart I could muster. | |
![]() | Decent Ride 260: Oh God . . . thir comin fir us . . . they clarts fae Daft Kids ur comin fir us. |
2. sticky excrement.
![]() | Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: clarts n. Tacky excrement, such as would cling to the lavatory bowl above the water level rather than slip into the water. |
In phrases
in trouble, lit. ‘in the shit’.
![]() | Porridge [TV scripts passim]. | |
![]() | Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 85: It’ll be yours truly who ends up in the clart. |