clat-fart dial.
(ˈklætfɑːt)
[cf. clat n.2, and clatterfart.]
Idle chatter, gossip, nonsense. So clat-farting a., chattering, that talks idly or nonsensically.
| 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers iii. 52 The Guild was called by some hostile husbands..the ‘clat-fart’ shop—that is, the gossip-shop. 1914 ― Prussian Officer 266 That clat-fartin' Mrs. Allsop. 1928 ― Lady Chatt. xvii. 324 Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's. |