Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A daub. · Sticky mud, mire or filth. · A person who is unclean. · A fool.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo daub, smear, or spread, especially with mud, etc.; to dirty.
From Middle English *clart, found in the verb biclarten (“to cover or smear with dirt”). Cognate with Scots clart, clairt (“to besmear”), Scots clarty (“dirty”). Further origin uncertain.
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