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