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See also: Tart, tárt, and tärt

English

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Etymology 1

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”).

Adjective

tart (comparative tarter, superlative tartest)

  1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
    I ate a very tart apple.
  2. (of wine) high or too high in acidity.
  3. (figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.
    He gave me a very tart reply.
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  • (of wine: high in acidity): green
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Etymology 2

From Middle English tart, tarte, from Old French tarte, tartre (“flat pastry”) (compare Medieval Latin tarta), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Old French torte, tourte, from Latin turta, perhaps from tŏrta f (“twisted”), in which case it would be cognate to torta.

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Noun

tart (plural tarts)

  1. 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).
  2. A melt (block of wax for use in a tart burner).
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Descendants
  • → Cantonese: 撻 / 挞 (taat1)
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Etymology 3

From a rebracketing of sweetheart, or from jam tart (“attractive woman”) by shortening.

Noun

tart (plural tarts)

  1. (British, slang) A prostitute.
  2. (slang, derogatory, by extension) Any woman with loose sexual morals.
    • 1950, Roy E. Blick (police inspector), testimony before the United States Congress‎:
      We know the majority of the places that these tarts will hang out at.
    • 1991, “Until the End of the World”, in Bono (lyrics), Achtung Baby, performed by U2:
      In the garden I was playing the tart / I kissed your lips and broke your heart
    • 2013 November 13, “Costa Concordia captain's mistress reveals late night sex sessions in cabin before doomed cruise liner sank”, in Daily Mirror‎:
      She told the Sun: "I'm talked about as an 'easy girl', the 'blonde slut' who distracted the captain and caused the crash. It's so wrong. I'm not some little tart."
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Verb

tart (third-person singular simple present tarts, present participle tarting, simple past and past participle tarted)

  1. To practice prostitution.
  2. To practice promiscuous sex.
  3. To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.
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Verb

tart

  1. inflection of tarten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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