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tart


adjective, tart·er, tart·est.

  1. sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie.
  2. sharp in character, spirit, or expression; cutting; biting: a tart remark.

noun

  1. a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
  2. a covered pie containing fruit or the like.
  3. Slang. a prostitute or promiscuous woman.

Verb Phrases

  1. tart up, Slang. to adorn, dress, or decorate, especially in a flamboyant manner: The old restaurant was tarted up to look like a Viennese café.

noun

  1. a pastry case often having no top crust, with a sweet or savoury filling

adjective

  1. (of a flavour, food, etc) sour, acid, or astringent
  2. cutting, sharp, or caustica tart remark

noun

  1. informal a promiscuous woman, esp a prostitute: often a term of abuseSee also tart up

adj.“having a sharp taste,” late 14c., perhaps from Old English teart “painful, sharp, severe” (in reference to punishment, pain, suffering), of unknown origin; possibly related to the root of teran “to tear.” Figurative use, with reference to words, speech, etc., is attested from c.1600. n.1“small pie,” c.1400, from Old French tarte “flat, open-topped pastry” (13c.), possibly an alteration of torte, from Late Latin torta “round loaf of bread” (in Medieval Latin “a cake, tart”), infl. in Middle English by tart (adj.). n.2“prostitute,” 1887, from earlier use as a term of endearment to a girl or woman (1864), sometimes said to be a shortening of sweetheart. But another theory traces it to jam-tart (see tart (n.1)), which was British slang early 19c. for “attractive woman.” To tart (something) up is from 1938.

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