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tarty

adj

Etymology

From tart + -y.

  1. derived from *der-✻ — “to flay, split, cleave”
  2. derived from *teraną✻
  3. inherited from *tartaz✻ — “rough, sharp, tearing”
  4. inherited from *tart✻
  5. inherited from teart
  6. inherited from tart
  7. formed as tarty — “tart + -y”

Definitions

  1. Like a tart (promiscuous woman)

    Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.

    • Atwood's Edible Woman offers a brilliant analysis of woman as consumable in consumer capitalism: when Marian turns out in a tarty hairdo and red dress...
    • The vice trust, with equal ingenuity, sent prostitutes dressed in their tartiest outfits into respectable neighborhoods to inquire about apartments for rent.
    • Ravey Davy's flashy, trashy signature style doesn't seem to be quite as big a hit among the Boujis Boozers as I might have hoped. Maybe it'll get tartier as the season progresses and the climate allows for rising hemlines.

  2. Somewhat tart.

    • Now, I lets mine boil a bit longer than Lizzy, to sweeten the tarty taste.
    • Because of its tarty taste, and the fact that (in animal experiments) it has shown to have a toxic effect, for culinary uses the rape oil is ‘hardened’ (hydrogenation of the double bond!).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tarty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA