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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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CLOITERY, CLYTRIE, adj. and n. [′klɔɪtərɪ̢, ′klɔɪ̢tərɪ̢, ′kləitri]

1. adj. Wet, disagreeable, dirty (Bnff.2, Abd.9, Lnk.3 1936).Edb. 1894 P.H. Hunter J. Inwick xix.:
Ye hae gotten wark to dae that no' mony Scotsmen care aboot, for it's naisty, cloitery wark, an' has to be düne on the Sundays.

2. n. †(1) “Work which is not only wet and nasty, but slimy” (Mearns, Lth. 1825 Jam.2).

(2) “Filth or offals of whatever kind; generally conveying the idea of what is moist, or tends to defile one” (Sc. Ib.); “animal intestines after being gutted; tripe” (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., clytrie); rubbish.ne.Sc. 1979 Alastair Mackie in Joy Hendry Chapman 23-4 (1985) 63:
And sae to teem oot aa my clytrie like you,
skailin on the beaches
amon corks, tangle, star-fish,
the affcasts and bruck o your abyss.

3. Combs.: (1) clytrie maid, cloitery wife, “a woman, whose work it is to remove filth or refuse, who cleans and sells offals, as tripe, etc.” (Lth. 1825 Jam.2); (2) cloitery market, “the market in Edinburgh in which the offals of animals are sold” (Edb. Ib.).(1) Lth. 1788 G. Wilson Coll. of Masonic Songs, etc. 65:
From a Flesh-market close head a clytrie maid came, And a pitcher with blood she did carry.

[See Cloiter above. O.Sc. has clut(t)rie, rubbish, refuse, 1645 (D.O.S.T.).]

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