clattyadj.
/ˈklati/, U.S. /ˈklædi/, Scottish English /ˈklatɪ/ Scottish.
a. Perhaps: of mud, mud-built.
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1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (1629) 23 If a lord should giue to one of his seruants some cottage house of clay..but afterward..should say, Fetch mee my good seruant out of his clattie cottage, and bring him to my palace.
b. Miry, dirty, nasty.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and loathsome
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1632 in Irving Dumbartonshire (1860) 500 It is prouin that Isobell called the said Martha clattie baudrons.
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