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tart¹

(tärt)

adj. tart·er, tart·est

1. Having a sharp pungent taste; sour. See Synonyms at sour.

2. Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.

[Middle English, from Old English teart, severe; see der- in Indo-European roots.]

tart′ly adv.

tart′ness n.

tart²

(tärt)

a. A pastry shell with shallow sides, no top crust, and any of various fillings.

b. Chiefly British A pie.

a. A prostitute.

b. A woman considered to be sexually promiscuous.

tr.v. tart·ed, tart·ing, tarts Chiefly British

To dress up or make fancy in a tawdry, garish way. Often used with up.

[Middle English tarte, from Old French, probably variant of tourte, from Late Latin tōrta, a kind of bread; see tortilla.]

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tart

(tɑːt)

(Cookery) a pastry case often having no top crust, with a sweet or savoury filling

[C14: from Old French tarte, of uncertain origin; compare Medieval Latin tarte]

tart

(tɑːt)

adj

1. (of a flavour, food, etc) sour, acid, or astringent

2. cutting, sharp, or caustic: a tart remark.

[Old English teart rough; related to Dutch tarten to defy, Middle High German traz defiance]

ˈtartish adj

ˈtartishly adv

ˈtartly adv

ˈtartness n

tart

(tɑːt)

informal a promiscuous woman, esp a prostitute: often a term of abuse. See also tart up

[C19: shortened from sweetheart]

ˈtarty adj

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tart¹

(tɑrt)

adj.

1. to the taste; sour or acid: tart apples.

2. sharp in character, spirit, or expression: a tart remark.

[before 1000; Middle English; Old English teart sharp, rough]

tart′ly, adv.

tart′ness, n.

tart²

(tɑrt)

n.

1. a usu. small, shallow pie, without a top crust, filled with fruit, custard, or the like.

2. a prostitute or promiscuous woman.

3. tart up, to adorn, dress, or decorate, esp. in a gaudy manner.

[1350–1400; Middle English tarte < Middle French]

tart′y, adj. –i•er, –i•est.

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Noun	1.	tart - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, whore, woman of the street, working girl call girl - a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone camp follower - a prostitute who provides service to military personnel comfort woman, ianfu - a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman" demimondaine - a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets white slave - a woman sold into prostitution adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	2.	tart - a small open pie with a fruit filling quiche - a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables) apple tart - a small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar lobster tart - a pastry shell filled with cooked lobster tartlet - a small tart usually used as a canape pie - dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
	3.	tart - a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust pastry - any of various baked foods made of dough or batter apple tart - a tart filled with sliced apples and sugar Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
Adj.	1.	tart - tasting sour like a lemon lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy sour - having a sharp biting taste
	2.	tart - harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark" sharp-worded, sharp unpleasant - disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"

tart

noun pie, pastry, pasty, tartlet, patty a slice of home-made tart

tart

adjective

1. sharp, acid, sour, bitter, pungent, tangy, astringent, piquant, vinegary, acidulous, acerb a slightly tart wine
sharp sweet, sugary, honeyed, syrupy, toothsome

2. cutting, biting, sharp, short, wounding, nasty, harsh, scathing, acrimonious, barbed, hurtful, caustic, astringent, vitriolic, trenchant, testy, mordant, snappish, mordacious The words were more tart than she had intended.
cutting kind, gentle, pleasant, delightful, agreeable

tart

noun (Informal) slut, prostitute, hooker (U.S. slang), whore, slag (Brit. slang), call girl, working girl (facetious slang), harlot, streetwalker, loose woman, fallen woman, scrubber (Brit. & Austral. slang), strumpet, trollop, floozy (slang), woman of easy virtue, fille de joie (French) He said I looked like a tart.

tart something up (Informal) do up, decorate, refurbish, renovate (informal), do over (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), fix up (informal), modernize, smarten up, give something a facelift (informal) They prefer to tart up their stations than improve their services.

tart yourself up (Informal) do yourself up, doll yourself up (informal), smarten yourself up, beautify yourself, make yourself up, preen yourself, titivate yourself (informal) She ran to the loo to tart herself up.

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tart¹

adjective

Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids:

acerb, acerbic, acetous, acid, acidulous, dry, sour, tangy.

tart²

noun

1. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment:

bawd, call girl, camp follower, courtesan, harlot, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, whore.

Slang: hooker, moll.

Idioms: lady of easy virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the night.

2. A vulgar promiscuous woman who flouts propriety:

baggage, hussy, jade, slattern, slut, tramp, wanton, wench, whore.

Slang: floozy.

Translations

تُورْتَةحامِضزانِيَهفَطيرَه مَحْشُوَّه

běhnacouraděvkakyselýostrý

tærteludersyrlig

Nutte Obstkuchen sauer

τάρτα

ácido pastel tarta

torttu

tarte acide aigre aigri garce

tortica

ávaxtabakasúr og beiskur

acido amaro aspro azzimarsi crostata

タルト

타트

augļu pīrāgsielasmeitaskābsskāņš

ovocný koláčik

kolač

mördegstårta

ขนมพายไส้ต่างๆ

turta ekşi orospu

bánh táo

果馅饼辛辣的妓女尖刻的

tart

¹ [tɑːt] ADJ

1. (= sour) [flavour, fruit] → ácido, agrio

2. (fig) [expression, remark] → áspero

tart

² [tɑːt] N

1. (Culin) (large) → tarta f; (small) → pastelillo m
jam tart → tarta f de mermelada

2. (= prostitute) → puta f, furcia f (Sp) (pej) (= promiscuous woman) → fulana f

tart up VT + ADV (Brit) [+ house] → pintar, remodelar, renovar
to tart o.s. up → vestirse y pintarse

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tart

[ˈtɑː^rt]

(COOKERY) (large) → tarte f; (small) → tartelette f
an apple tart → une tarte aux pommes
jam tarts → des tartelettes à la confiture

(British) (pejorative) (= woman) → poule f

adj

(= sharp) [flavour] → aigre

(= acid) [remark, reply, comment] → acide

tart up

[+ house, room] → retaper

to tart o.s. up → se mettre sur son trente et un
to get tarted up → se mettre sur son trente et un

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tart

adj (+er)

flavour, wine → herb, sauer (pej); fruit → sauer

(fig) remark, manner → scharf; person → schroff

tart

n (Cook) → Obstkuchen m, → Obsttorte f; (individual) → Obsttörtchen nt; apple tart → Apfelkuchen m → /-törtchen nt; jam tart → Marmeladenkuchen m → /-törtchen nt

tart

n (Brit inf: = prostitute) → Nutte f (inf); (= loose woman) → Flittchen nt (pej inf); (pej: = woman) → Schachtel f (inf)

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tart

¹ [tɑːt] adj (fruit, flavour) → aspro/a, agro/a (fig) (remark) → caustico/a

tart up vt + adv (Brit) (fam) → agghindare
to tart o.s. up, get tarted up → farsi bello/a (pej) → agghindarsi

tart

² [tɑːt] n

a. (Brit) (Culin) (large) → crostata; (individual) → crostatina

b. (fam, offensive) (woman) → puttana (fam!)

tart¹

(taːt) adjective

sharp or sour in taste. These apples taste rather tart.

ˈtartly adverb

ˈtartness noun

tart²

(taːt) noun

1. a pie containing eg fruit or jam. an apple tart.

2. (slang) a prostitute.

tart

→ تُورْتَة ovocný koláč tærte Obstkuchen τάρτα pastel, tarta torttu tarte tortica crostatina タルト 타트 taartje terte tarta torta пирог mördegstårta ขนมพายไส้ต่างๆ turta bánh táo 果馅饼

tart

a. agrio-a, ácido-a;

___ cell → tartocélula.

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Everything went happily at home too; but at lunch Grisha began whistling, and, what was worse, was disobedient to the English governess, and was forbidden to have any tart. Darya Alexandrovna would not have let things go so far on such a day had she been present; but she had to support the English governess's authority, and she upheld her decision that Grisha should have no tart.

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Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.

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"Stella, I had eaten a helping of tongue and one of chicken, three biscuits, a generous allowance of preserves, a piece of pie, a tart, and a square of chocolate cake!"

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Here he stopped at a pastrycook's, went in (probably to give an order), and came out again immediately with a tart in his hand.

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We did break the thing up at length with the aid of a chisel, but it was perfectly impossible to eat it, and we had to make a dinner off the vegetables and an apple tart. We tried a mouthful of the duck, but it was like eating India-rubber.

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The Tutao thus baked is called 'Amar'; the action of the oven having converted it into an amber-coloured caky substance, a little tart, but not at all disagreeable to the taste.

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- gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all - five pounds - and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed.

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Rebecca and Emma Jane always knew when she had brought a tart or a triangle of layer cake with her school luncheon, because on those days she forsook the cheerful society of her mates and sought a safe solitude in the woods, returning after a time with a jocund smile on her smug face.

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His breakfast consisted of a side-dish, a broiled fish with Reading sauce, a scarlet slice of roast beef garnished with mushrooms, a rhubarb and gooseberry tart, and a morsel of Cheshire cheese, the whole being washed down with several cups of tea, for which the Reform is famous.

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Ol-ol--howjer spell it, anyhow?" asked the tart young lady to whom Archer had pushed his wife's telegram across the brass ledge of the Western Union office.

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With a grace all her own, Cecilia dived under the bed, and produced a basket of jam tarts, a basket of fruit and sweetmeats, a basket of sparkling lemonade, and a superb cake--all paid for by general subscriptions, and smuggled into the room by kind connivance of the servants.

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whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.

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