CLARTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English *clart, found in the verb biclarten (“to cover または smear with dirt”). Cognate with Scots clart, clairt (“to besmear”), Scots clarty (“dirty”). Further origin uncertain.

発音

• IPA^(key): /klɑːt/
  • 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)t

名詞

clart (複数形 clarts)

1. A daub.

   a clart of grease

2. (now Scotland, Northern England) 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 […].

3. (Tyneside, derogatory) A person who is unclean.
4. (Tyneside, derogatory) A fool.
5. Unwanted stuff; junk; clutter; rubbish; stuff that is in the way.

   I need to get rid of all this clart. (Clearing unwanted items from a table top)

派生語

• beclart
• clarty

参照

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

動詞

clart (三人称単数 現在形 clarts, 現在分詞 clarting, 過去形および過去分詞形 clarted)

1. (transitive, now Scotland, Northern England) 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.