资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Clatch \Clatch\, v. t. & i.
   To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a
   slipshod way. [Scot.]

Clatch \Clatch\, n. [Cf. Scot. clatch a slap, the noise caused
   by the collision of soft bodies; prob. of imitative origin.]
   (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
   1. A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of
      mud.

   2. Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod
      way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.