tart
adjEtymology
From Middle English tart, from Old English teart (“sharp, rough, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *tart, from Proto-Germanic *tartaz (“rough, sharp, tearing”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, cleave”). Related to Scots tairt (“tart; tartness”), Dutch tarten (“to defy, challenge, mock”), German trotzen (“to defy, brave, mock”), perhaps Albanian thartë (“sour, acid, sharp”).
Definitions
Sharp to the taste
Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
- I ate a very tart apple.
High or too high in acidity.
Sharp
Sharp; keen; severe.
- He gave me a very tart reply.
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A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam…
A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg, butter, historically even meat or other savory fillings).
A melt (block of wax for use in a tart burner).
A prostitute.
Any woman with loose sexual morals.
- We know the majority of the places that these tarts will hang out at.
- In the garden I was playing the tart / I kissed your lips and broke your heart
- The NYU [New York University] tarts and the club slime, the art holes and the once-a-week bridge-and-tunnel leatherettes, the spikes and the usual dregs and walking garbage, Eel was giving them all the hiss.
To practice prostitution.
To practice promiscuous sex.
To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.
A surname.
The neighborhood
Derived
overtart, tart cherry, tarten, tartly, tartness, tartish, tarty, Bakewell tart, Banbury tart, butter tart, chess tart, custard tart, egg custard tart, egg tart, gooseberry tart, gypsy tart, kueh tart, kuih tart, Linzer tart, maid-of-honor tart, maid of honor tart, maid of honour tart, maid-of-honour tart, maids of honour tart, Manchester tart, minitart, neenish tart, pineapple tart, raspberry tart, snake tart, taffety tart, tart ring, tartwoman, treacle tart, tartlike, card tart, cart tart, credit card tart, rate tart, tart card · +3 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at tart. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at tart. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at tart
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA