tart
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t
[edit] Etymology 1
May be from Old English teart.
[edit] Adjective
tart (comparative tarter, superlative tartest)
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- Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
- a tart apple
- Of wine: high or too high in acidity.
- (figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.
- a tart reply
- tart language
- a tart rebuke
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of wine: high in acidity
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[edit] Etymology 2
Old French tarte (“‘flat pastry’”).
[edit] Noun
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tart (plural tarts)
- A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
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pie, pastry
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[edit] Etymology 3
From sweetheart or jam tart (“‘attractive woman’”) by shortening
[edit] Noun
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Singular |
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tart (plural tarts)
- (UK) (slang) A prostitute.
- (UK) (slang) By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
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- (prostitute): See WikiSaurus:prostitute
- (prostitute): See WikiSaurus:promiscuous woman
prostitute
woman with loose sexual morals
[edit] Verb
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to tart (third-person singular simple present tarts, present participle tarting, simple past and past participle tarted)
- To practice prostitution
- To practice promiscuous sex
- To dress garishly or ostentatiously
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[edit] Dutch
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tart
- challenges, dares, defies (first-person, second-person and third-person singular present tense of tarten)
[edit] Hungarian
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɒrt/
[edit] Verb
tart
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[edit] Irish
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [t̪ˠaɾˠt̪ˠ]
[edit] Noun
tart m.
[edit] Declension
- Third declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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[edit] Mutation
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| tart | thart | dtart | |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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