Sharny is a Scots dialect adjective meaning covered in or smeared with dung — particularly animal dung. It belongs firmly to agricultural and rural Scotland, where dealing with livestock muck was a daily reality. A sharny boot is a dung-covered boot; a sharny byre is a dirty cattle shed. The register is bluntly descriptive in the way Scots dialect often is: it says exactly what it means without euphemism or apology, and it's satisfying to say.
He came in from the field with sharny wellies and was told in no uncertain terms to leave them at the door.
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(Scotland) Covered in dung.
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