tart
Plural: tarts
Noun
- a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
- a small open pie with a fruit filling
- a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust
- 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.
Adjective Satellite
- tasting sour like a lemon
- harsh
- "a tart remark"
Adj
- Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
- high or too high in acidity.
- Sharp; keen; severe.
Verb
Verb Forms: tarted, tarting, tarts
- To dress up in a showy or provocative manner.
- To practice prostitution.
- To practice promiscuous sex.
- To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.
Adjective
- Having a sharp or sour taste; sharp or cutting in manner.
Examples
- He gave me a very tart reply.
- He tried to TART up his simple word with a fancy suffix, but it wasn’t valid.
- Her TART response to his challenge was to play a seven-letter word.
- I ate a very tart apple.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, lemonlike, lemony, prostitute, sharp, sharp-worded, sourish, sporting lady, tangy, whore, woman of the street, working girl, green
Scrabble Score: 4
tart: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtart: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tart: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary