clatfart

English

Alternative forms

• clat-fart

Noun

clatfart (uncountable)

1. (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, authorized British edition, London: Martin Secker […], published February 1932 (May 1932 printing), →OCLC:

     Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.