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单词 clatty
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Definition of clatty in English:

clatty

adjectiveclattier, clattiestˈklati
Irish, Scottish informal

  • Dirty, untidy, or unpleasant.

    the table was downright clatty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He tugged now from his pants pocket a hankie, so clatty it would've been the talk of the house.
    • I'm waiting to be told off for getting clatty.
    • "They are all clatty in their persons, though," was Dolly's verdict, arrived at after a lifetime's experience.
    • Try one of these plays and I promise you'll be wanting to get your ‘clatty mitts’ on the other two.
    • It was always the sorest toil and the clattiest jobs they would set the wee one to do.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from dialect clat 'a clod of dirt' + -y1; related to clot and clod.
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