clatfart
English
Alternative forms
- clat-fart
Noun
clatfart (uncountable)
- (UK, regional) Gossip.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- The Guild was called by some hostile husbands, who found their wives getting too independent, the "clat-fart" shop—that is, the gossip-shop.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
- Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.