tartn.

Brit.

/tɑːt/, U.S.

/tɑrt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s tarte, Middle English taarte, tartt, 1500s tairte, 1800s Scottish tairt, teart.

Etymology: < French tarte (13th cent.), an open tart, in our sense 1b (a), = medieval Latin tarta (1103 in Du Cange); of uncertain origin. French tarte was held by Diez to be altered from Old French torte, French tourte, a disc-shaped cake or loaf, also a pasty, a pie, late Latin torta panis, a kind of loaf or bread (Vulgate); and the two words certainly sometimes run together in use: compare Italian (Florio) torta, tortara ‘a tart’ (Baretti), torta ‘a pasty’; Spanish (Minsheu) torta, tarta ‘a tart’, modern Spanish torta a covered pasty, tarta a tart; but there are phonetic difficulties in the identification, which is rejected by Hatzfeld and Darmesteter. Dutch taart, tart, is from French The Welsh torth, Breton tors round loaf, are from Latin torta or Old French torte.

1. Name for various dishes consisting of a crust of baked pastry enclosing different ingredients.

†a. formerly with meat, fish, cheese, fruit, etc.: the same or nearly the same as a pie.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun]

pie1301

tart?a1400

dish-meata1513

coulibiac1898

?a1400 Morte Arth. 186 Tartes of Turky, taste whane þeme lykys.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 565/44 Artocrea, an^ce a tart.

c1400 Rom. Rose 7041 With tendre gees, & with capons, With tartes, or with chesis [MS. cheffis] fat, With deynte flawnes, brode & flat.

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. (E.E.T.S.) 47 Tartes de chare... Tartes of Fyssche.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 487/1 Taarte, bake mete.., tarta.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1245 The Balade also of the Mustarde Tarte; Suche problemis to paynt it longyth to his arte.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tarte or march pane, chanona.

1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario H iij To make Tarts..of Creuisses.

1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario H iij b To make Tarts of Eeles.

a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 192 A Tart [made of veal suet, seasoning, bread, eggs, veal sweetbreads,..etc. made in a dish].

b. In current use restricted to (a) a flat, usually small, piece of pastry, with no crust on the top (so distinguished from a pie), filled with fruit preserve or other sweet confection; (b) a covered fruit pie: = pie n.² 1 (c): in this application formerly chiefly dialect or local, now in polite or fashionable use.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > tart > [noun]

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c1430 Two Cookery-bks. (E.E.T.S.) 48 Tartes of Frute in lente.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 119^v The tartes made onlye of Heppes serue well to be eaten of them that vomit to much.

1580 in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1903) 444 b Dinner. To my Master... A boild meat of mutton [etc.]. Second course. Rabytes roste. Chickins roste [etc.]... Arttigoges, and strobarye tairte.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cvii. 95 Boyle them [sc. fruit]..till they be soft, then to drawe them as ye doe a tart.

1669 S. Pepys Diary 24 Feb. (1976) IX. 458 A mighty neat dish of custards and tarts.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tart, a sort of Baked Dish, consisting of Summer Fruits bak'd in Paste.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 218 One of ye West Country tarts..its an apple pye with a Custard all on the top.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) When the Tart is made, you must cover it at top with some Bands of Paste, and having sugar'd it, bake it in the Oven.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. May 307/2 Need I the currant sing, or goosberry praise, Prepar'd in tarts which artful females raise?

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper viii. 191 To preserve Currants for Tarts.

1899 W. H. Mallock Individualist xix. 187 Her rejection of a nice little jam tart..‘she never touched patisserie’.

2. figurative.

a. Applied, gen. (originally often endearingly) to a girl or woman; frequently in Australia and New Zealand. Also in Liverpool dialect (with definite article or possessive pronoun): a wife or girl-friend. slang.

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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife

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1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 254 Tart, a term of approval applied by the London lower orders to a young woman for whom some affection is felt. The expression is not generally employed by the young men, unless the female is in ‘her best’.

1898 in M. Davitt Life & Progr. Austral. xxxv. 192 And his lady love's his ‘donah’, Or his ‘dinah’, or his ‘tart’.

1916 Anzac Bk. 22/2 'Ere's some er the dinkum coc'nut ice the tart useter make.

1918 Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 5 July 252/2 I blushes like a 14-year old tart.

1931 ‘G. Orwell’ Hop-picking in Coll. Ess. (1968) I. 71 This word [sc. tart] now seems absolutely interchangeable with ‘girl’, with no implication of ‘prostitute’. People will speak of their daughter or sister as a tart.

a1943 L. Esson in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 233 All the tarts iz waitin'..In their flashest clobber.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xv. 327 In the south of England a girl is often spoken of as a ‘tart’ (referred to as such by boys aged 11), and..no disrespect is implied by the word. A ‘posh tart’ is indeed a general term of admiration for a well-dressed, nice-looking girl.

1962 Guardian 24 Dec. 4/2 It's the little things at home that start nagging, and the tart's not well.

1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 25 Me judy, me tart, me gerl. My lady-friend; my fiancée; my wife.

1980 V. S. Pritchett Tale Bearers 84 His mother, a decent, now elderly tart found living with her black servant.

b. A female of immoral character; a prostitute. Also loosely as a term of abuse. slang.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

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1887 Morning Post 25 Jan. The paragraph..referred to the young ladies in the chorus at the Avenue and spoke of them as ‘tarts’. It was suggested on the part of the prosecution that the word ‘tart’ really meant a person of immoral character.

1894 Daily News 5 Feb. 2/7 Some of the women described themselves as ‘Tarts’..and said that they got their living in the best way they could.

1903 J. S. Farmer Slang Tart (common). Primarily a girl, chaste or not; now (unless loosely used) a wanton, mistress, ‘good-one’.

1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape v. 57 I see yuh, yuh white-faced tart, yuh!

1936 G. Greene Gun for Sale ii. 37 A woman policeman kept an eye on the tarts at the corner.

1951 S. Longstreet Pedlocks ii. v. 93 Real fancy night[-gown], pink drawers, black lace... Nothing cheap for us like the grimy tarts on Mercury Street.

1965 E. J. Howard After Julius ix. 133 People don't..call other people tarts because they go to bed with people without marrying them.

1979 J. Cooper Class 17 I evolved a new way of dressing: five-inch high-heeled shoes, tight straight skirts, very very tight cheap sweaters, and masses of make-up... I looked just like a tart.

c. The young favourite of an older man; a catamite. Also loosely, a male prostitute. slang.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male > boy or youth

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > male prostitute

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1935 I. Miller School Tie ii. ix. 110 Being a tart. The sort of thing you were getting up to with Black last Easter term.

1943 D. Welch Jrnl. 23 Feb. (1952) 43 A week afterwards I had a letter from this old boy—quite elaborately romantic... As Geoffrey approached I held the letter down, against me. ‘What are you engrossed in?’ he jeered... ‘A tart-note I bet. You've had a tart-note.’

1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. v. 95 I can usually manage a tart's holiday at Cannes or Ischia.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Jan. 100/3 He nearly loses the boy to a male tart in the city.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 401/4 The boys that Isherwood and his friends picked up were not professional tarts only out for what they could get.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

tart-dish n.

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1782 W. Withering in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 329 Vessels..made like a common tart-dish, with a spreading border.

tart-maker n.

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1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 May 3/2 Verses, eulogizing the tart~maker and her handiwork.

tart-seller n.

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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 199/1 I've been a cake and a tart-seller in the streets for seven or eight years.

C2.

† tart-stuff n. a confection of fruit for making tarts (obsolete).

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > fruit prepared for tarts

tart-stuff1623

1623 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. xlvii Lumpe sugar for tarte stuffe.

tart-woman n. a woman who sells tarts.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of bakery goods > woman

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1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 446 When he was rich he would buy Leader's pencil-case, and pay the tart-woman.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 119 This boy went invariably into debt with the tart-woman.

Draft additions December 2005

tart with a heart n. (also tart with a heart of gold and variants) a (type of) woman (frequently a prostitute) portrayed or characterized as apparently disreputable or unprincipled but intrinsically good-hearted, sensitive, or compassionate, esp. viewed as a stock or clichéd dramatic character.

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1961 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 8 Sept. 16/2 The ‘Never on Sunday’ tart with a heart as she has been called in the movie—Melinda Mercouri—made this film in 1955, toward the beginning of her career.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Oct. b6 Instead of well-heeled insiders, Wilson's characters are seedy outsiders, dominated by the old tart-with-the-heart-of-gold theme.

1989 K. Newman Night Mayor (1990) (BNC) 68 Here's another recurrent characterisation... The tart with a heart.

2005 Guardian (Nexis) 16 July (Guide Suppl.) 71 And while Elizabeth Shue as the hooker sharing his final binge is at times dangerously close to being the tart with a heart, she avoids being overshadowed by Cage's performance.

Draft additions June 2004

tart card n. British colloquial a business card advertising the services of a prostitute, esp. one placed in a public telephone box.

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1994 Today 3 Nov. 3/2 Oxford Street, Baker Street, Edgware Road, Marylebone Road and areas around main line stations are all blackspots in the explosion of tartcards.

2002 Time Out 5 June 35/4 Two years ago it was estimated that the carding system was so popular that around 650 prostitutes were advertising through the use of tart cards in London.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tartadj.

Forms: Old English teart, 1500s–1600s tarte, Middle English, 1500s– tart.

Etymology: Old English teart ; ulterior derivation obscure: by some referred to root of ter-an to tear v.¹The sense-history is also deficient. Teart appears in Old English only in reference to punishment, pain, or suffering, which use of tart, after many centuries, reappears late in 16th cent. In the Middle English period, the word is known only by a single instance in Chaucer (if this is the adjective), continued after 1500, in sense ‘of a sharp, pungent, or sour taste’. In 1500 it is also applied to a sharp or pungent weapon; and about 1600 to sharp, bitter, caustic, or stinging words. It is difficult from these data to infer the sense-development; and the order here followed is provisional.

†1. Of pain, punishment, suffering, discipline, law: Sharp, severe, painful, grievous. Obsolete.In Old English; not known in Middle English; in modern English possibly newly developed from sense 2.

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society > authority > punishment > [adjective] > severe

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c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 52/1946 Acerrimo, i. asperrimo, on þære teartestan.

c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 168/218 Acra, i. tearte.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 344 Ac beo hem gesæd, ær he gewite, ða teartan witu, þæt his heorte mid ðære biternysse beo gehrepod.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. xvi. 89 Themison..tasted not of the tarte conyzance of confession, before the tyrant.1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 44^v My Schoole is tarte, but my counsell is plesant.1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes xi. 81 And Iustinian his Law is tarte; Si quis..auserit, capitali pœna feriatur.a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. ii. 55 Another way The Newes is not so tart.

a. Sharp to the sense of taste; †biting, pungent (obsolete); now esp. sour, acid, or acidulous.The sense in the Chaucer quot. is not quite clear.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > strong-tasting

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c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 383 To boille the chiknes with the Marybones And poudre marchaunt. tart and Galyngale.

a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 435 Myghty stronge meate For the deuyll to eate; It was tart and punyete.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 219 The Patient is to eat tart and sharp meats and poignant sauces [margin As Radish roots and oxymell].

1626 E. Deane Spadacrene Anglica (title page) A Brief Treatise of the Acid Tart Fountain in the Forest of Knaresborough.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 327/1 Tarte, sharpe in taste as vinagre is, aigre, poignant.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tarte, acidus.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tarte or somewhat eyger, subacidus.1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged (1809) 356 If you love tart things, add ten drops of oil of vitriol to your pint.1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. viii. 139 Cherries..the juice of which was agreeably tart.

†b. Of the sense of taste: Keen. Obsolete. rare.

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1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. E2 Would you be euer faire? and yong? Stout of teeth? and strong of tongue? Tart of palat? quick of eare?

†3. Sharp, keen (as an edge, point, or weapon).

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the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective]

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?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. cii^v I bought thys dagger at the marte, A sharp poynt and a tarte.

1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) v. sig. L3 Thin like an iron wedge, so sharpe and tart, As twere of purpose made to cleaue Loues hart.

4. figurative. Of words, speech, a speaker: Sharp in tone or tendency, biting, cutting, acrimonious, caustic.

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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] > snappish or sharp-tongued

knappish1542

snappish1542

short1591

tart1601

tart-tongued1602

nimble-tongued1608

snapping1642

snapper1673

snip-snap1770

snaggy1781

twittya1825

snappy1834

sharp-tongued1837

snippy1848

snack1883

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective] > of speech or speaker

stinginga1529

tart1601

tart-tongued1602

acrimonious1651

acerb1822

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 Pref. 10 Here I renounce all tart and soure speach.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 35 Where wilt thou begin With thy tart phrase, to stinge and nettle him?

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. x. 106 The Cynics..were very tart and satyric in their Declamations against this..kind of Oratorie.

1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 185 Sometimes a tart Irony goes for Wit.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋6 Entertaining the Company with tart ill-natured Observations.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxix Her mind was made up, and she grew tart on the least contradiction.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 719 Ill humour..might sometimes impel him to give a tart answer.

Compounds

tart-tongued adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] > snappish or sharp-tongued

knappish1542

snappish1542

short1591

tart1601

tart-tongued1602

nimble-tongued1608

snapping1642

snapper1673

snip-snap1770

snaggy1781

twittya1825

snappy1834

sharp-tongued1837

snippy1848

snack1883

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective] > of speech or speaker

stinginga1529

tart1601

tart-tongued1602

acrimonious1651

acerb1822

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 26 b Being a tart-tounged detractor.

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tartv.¹

Etymology: < tart adj.: compare to sour.

rare. ? Obsolete.

1. transitive. To make tart, to sour; †to make pungent, give pungency to (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > make sour [verb (transitive)] > make pungent

quicken1591

tart1616

punge1657

exacuate1674

1616 T. Scott Christs Politician 32 One sponefull of vineger will soone tart a great deale of sweete milke.

a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1668) 28 To walk on our own ground..The best of sawce to tart our meats.

2. intransitive. To become tart or sour.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > be or become sour [verb (intransitive)]

sour1390

souren1570

tart1629

blinka1665

whig1756

1629 J. Gaule Distractions 244 An ill Liquor that being kept too long, hath tarted and tainted the Caske.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

tartv.²

Etymology: < tart n. 2.

slang.

1. transitive. To treat in the manner of a catamite or tart; to favour.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1930 W. H. Auden Poems 31 For where are Basley who won the Ten, Dickson so tarted by the House, Thomas who kept a sparrow-hawk?

2. To dress up or adorn (a person), usually in a showy or gaudy manner; to titivate; also reflexive and intransitive for reflexive. Frequently transferred and figurative.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (transitive)]

highta1200

atiffe?c1225

tiff?c1225

wyndre?a1366

kembc1386

picka1393

prunec1395

tifta1400

varnishc1405

finea1425

tifflea1425

quaint1484

embuda1529

trick?1532

trick1545

dill1548

tricka1555

prink1573

smug1588

sponge1588

smudge1589

perk1590

primpc1590

sponge1592

tricksy1598

prime1616

sprug1622

briska1625

to sleek upa1625

trickify1678

prim1688

titivate1705

dandify1823

beflounce1824

befop1866

spry1878

lustrify1886

dude1899

doll1916

tart1938

youthify1945

pansy1946

spiv1947

dolly1958

zhuzh1970

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify the person [verb (reflexive)]

preenc1395

prunec1395

prank1546

to set oneself out to the life1604

adonize1611

briska1625

tight1775

to make up1778

tighten1786

smarten1796

pretty1868

tart1938

pansy1946

sharpen1952

primp1959

1938 [implied in: E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iii. 61 After dark, she [sc. London] is like a governess gone to the bad, in a Woolworth tiara, tarted up all wrong. (at tarted adj. a)].

1952 Archit. Rev. cxii. 371/2 Unfortunately these devices to prevent the neighbourhood's slip from showing, have been ‘tarted-up’ with a variety of recessed panels, pipe ends, exposed brick heads and so forth, which seem to have no function.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 May p. xix There seems nowadays a disposition to tart up Shakespeare as if he cannot be taken straight.

1961 John o' London's 6 July 57/4 Even Jaques Becker..can't resist both tarting and prettying up the Modigliani legend.

1967 Spectator 1 Dec. 690/3 Peacetime seems to have been passed in seducing the daughters of the local townsfolk..or tarting up one's uniform with more feathers or buttons.

1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek ii. 35 You won't be able to tart yourself up like a teenager much longer, Rose.

1976 J. Cooper Harriet ii. xiv. 115 They were tarting up in the Ladies.

1978 Observer 16 Apr. 38/1 American dealers would tart up the junk and sell it at suburban auctions at three times the English price.

3. intransitive.

a. To meet or pursue women.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > associate with loose woman

whore1547

whore-hunt1597

wench1599

palliardize1619

smock1719

womanize1893

tart1948

1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. v. 30 I bet he's been tarting.

1981 P. Vansittart Death of Robin Hood iv. v. 206 All had tales of adventure... Some claimed to have been tarting.

b. Of a girl or woman: to behave like an immoral woman or a ‘tart’; frequently const. (a)round.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > of woman: make herself available

to turn up?1616

to put out1928

slut1946

tart1949

lay1955

1949 J. B. Priestley Home is Tomorrow ii. i. 47 I know I've behaved badly tarting around.

1959 K. Waterhouse Billy Liar ii. 33 I would fall to wondering whether she was tarting round the streets with some American airman.

1960 Spectator 18 Nov. 784 The boy would now turn soft and the girl start tarting.

1983 J. Wainwright Their Evil Ways ii. 66 Her mother was tarting around with this other bloke.

Draft additions June 2004

intransitive. British colloquial. With about or around. To behave in a flamboyant or showy manner; to flounce around; (also) to mess about, waste time.

ΚΠ

1972 A. Bennett Getting On ii. 36 I do not tart about the house in my underpants.

1982 M. Kington Miles & Miles 54 Here she is tarting around in publishing.

1984 D. Lessing Diaries of Jane Somers i. 69 Tarting around the room in one of Georgie's dresses.

1998 Viz June 39/4 How lads, this'll tide wuz awa for half an oo-ah whilst the coppaz an'surljaz aall tart aroond.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

n.?a1400

adj.c1000

v.¹1616

v.²1930

单词	tart
释义	tartn. Brit. /tɑːt/, U.S. /tɑrt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s tarte, Middle English taarte, tartt, 1500s tairte, 1800s Scottish tairt, teart. Etymology: < French tarte (13th cent.), an open tart, in our sense 1b (a), = medieval Latin tarta (1103 in Du Cange); of uncertain origin. French tarte was held by Diez to be altered from Old French torte, French tourte, a disc-shaped cake or loaf, also a pasty, a pie, late Latin torta panis, a kind of loaf or bread (Vulgate); and the two words certainly sometimes run together in use: compare Italian (Florio) torta, tortara ‘a tart’ (Baretti), torta ‘a pasty’; Spanish (Minsheu) torta, tarta ‘a tart’, modern Spanish torta a covered pasty, tarta a tart; but there are phonetic difficulties in the identification, which is rejected by Hatzfeld and Darmesteter. Dutch taart, tart, is from French The Welsh torth, Breton tors round loaf, are from Latin torta or Old French torte. 1. Name for various dishes consisting of a crust of baked pastry enclosing different ingredients. †a. formerly with meat, fish, cheese, fruit, etc.: the same or nearly the same as a pie. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] pie1301 tart?a1400 dish-meata1513 coulibiac1898 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 186 Tartes of Turky, taste whane þeme lykys. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 565/44 Artocrea, an^ce a tart. c1400 Rom. Rose 7041 With tendre gees, & with capons, With tartes, or with chesis [MS. cheffis] fat, With deynte flawnes, brode & flat. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. (E.E.T.S.) 47 Tartes de chare... Tartes of Fyssche. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 487/1 Taarte, bake mete.., tarta. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1245 The Balade also of the Mustarde Tarte; Suche problemis to paynt it longyth to his arte. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tarte or march pane, chanona. 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario H iij To make Tarts..of Creuisses. 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario H iij b To make Tarts of Eeles. a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 192 A Tart [made of veal suet, seasoning, bread, eggs, veal sweetbreads,..etc. made in a dish]. b. In current use restricted to (a) a flat, usually small, piece of pastry, with no crust on the top (so distinguished from a pie), filled with fruit preserve or other sweet confection; (b) a covered fruit pie: = pie n.² 1 (c): in this application formerly chiefly dialect or local, now in polite or fashionable use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > tart > [noun] tartc1430 tartletc1460 tantadlin1630 fanchonnette1845 flan1846 c1430 Two Cookery-bks. (E.E.T.S.) 48 Tartes of Frute in lente. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 119^v The tartes made onlye of Heppes serue well to be eaten of them that vomit to much. 1580 in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1903) 444 b Dinner. To my Master... A boild meat of mutton [etc.]. Second course. Rabytes roste. Chickins roste [etc.]... Arttigoges, and strobarye tairte. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cvii. 95 Boyle them [sc. fruit]..till they be soft, then to drawe them as ye doe a tart. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 24 Feb. (1976) IX. 458 A mighty neat dish of custards and tarts. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tart, a sort of Baked Dish, consisting of Summer Fruits bak'd in Paste. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 218 One of ye West Country tarts..its an apple pye with a Custard all on the top. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) When the Tart is made, you must cover it at top with some Bands of Paste, and having sugar'd it, bake it in the Oven. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. May 307/2 Need I the currant sing, or goosberry praise, Prepar'd in tarts which artful females raise? 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper viii. 191 To preserve Currants for Tarts. 1899 W. H. Mallock Individualist xix. 187 Her rejection of a nice little jam tart..‘she never touched patisserie’. 2. figurative. a. Applied, gen. (originally often endearingly) to a girl or woman; frequently in Australia and New Zealand. Also in Liverpool dialect (with definite article or possessive pronoun): a wife or girl-friend. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend lief971 ladya1393 ladyshipa1393 speciala1400 amiec1400 womanc1400 amoreta1425 mistressc1425 paramoura1450 fair ladya1470 girl?a1513 sooterkin1530 Tib1533 she1547 lady-love1568 jug1569 young lady1584 pigeon1592 love-lass1594 lass1596 dowsabel1612 swainling1615 lucky1629 Dulcinea1638 Lindabrides1640 inamorata1651 baby1684 best girl1691 lady friend1733 young woman1822 moll1823 querida1834 sheila1839 bint1855 tart1864 babykins1870 Dona1874 novia1874 fancy-girl1892 girlfriend1892 cliner1895 tootsy1895 dinah1898 best1904 twist and twirl1905 jane1906 kitten1908 patootie1918 meisie1919 bride1924 gf1925 jelly1931 sort1933 a bit (also piece) of homework1945 beast1946 queen1955 momma1964 mi'jita1970 her indoors1979 girlf1991 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife wifeeOE womanc1275 peerc1330 spousessc1384 ladyc1390 good lady1502 girl?a1513 spousage1513 little lady1523 the weaker vessel1526 companion1535 wedlock1566 Mrs1572 dame1574 rib?1590 feme1595 fathom1602 feme covert1602 shrew1606 wife of one's bosom1611 kickie-wickiea1616 heifer1616 sposa1624 bosom-partner1633 goodwife1654 little woman1715 squaw1767 the Mrs1821 missus1823 maw1826 lady wife1840 tart1864 mistress1873 mama1916 ball and chain1921 trouble and strife1929 old boot1958 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 254 Tart, a term of approval applied by the London lower orders to a young woman for whom some affection is felt. The expression is not generally employed by the young men, unless the female is in ‘her best’. 1898 in M. Davitt Life & Progr. Austral. xxxv. 192 And his lady love's his ‘donah’, Or his ‘dinah’, or his ‘tart’. 1916 Anzac Bk. 22/2 'Ere's some er the dinkum coc'nut ice the tart useter make. 1918 Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 5 July 252/2 I blushes like a 14-year old tart. 1931 ‘G. Orwell’ Hop-picking in Coll. Ess. (1968) I. 71 This word [sc. tart] now seems absolutely interchangeable with ‘girl’, with no implication of ‘prostitute’. People will speak of their daughter or sister as a tart. a1943 L. Esson in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 233 All the tarts iz waitin'..In their flashest clobber. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xv. 327 In the south of England a girl is often spoken of as a ‘tart’ (referred to as such by boys aged 11), and..no disrespect is implied by the word. A ‘posh tart’ is indeed a general term of admiration for a well-dressed, nice-looking girl. 1962 Guardian 24 Dec. 4/2 It's the little things at home that start nagging, and the tart's not well. 1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 25 Me judy, me tart, me gerl. My lady-friend; my fiancée; my wife. 1980 V. S. Pritchett Tale Bearers 84 His mother, a decent, now elderly tart found living with her black servant. b. A female of immoral character; a prostitute. Also loosely as a term of abuse. slang. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1887 Morning Post 25 Jan. The paragraph..referred to the young ladies in the chorus at the Avenue and spoke of them as ‘tarts’. It was suggested on the part of the prosecution that the word ‘tart’ really meant a person of immoral character. 1894 Daily News 5 Feb. 2/7 Some of the women described themselves as ‘Tarts’..and said that they got their living in the best way they could. 1903 J. S. Farmer Slang Tart (common). Primarily a girl, chaste or not; now (unless loosely used) a wanton, mistress, ‘good-one’. 1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape v. 57 I see yuh, yuh white-faced tart, yuh! 1936 G. Greene Gun for Sale ii. 37 A woman policeman kept an eye on the tarts at the corner. 1951 S. Longstreet Pedlocks ii. v. 93 Real fancy night[-gown], pink drawers, black lace... Nothing cheap for us like the grimy tarts on Mercury Street. 1965 E. J. Howard After Julius ix. 133 People don't..call other people tarts because they go to bed with people without marrying them. 1979 J. Cooper Class 17 I evolved a new way of dressing: five-inch high-heeled shoes, tight straight skirts, very very tight cheap sweaters, and masses of make-up... I looked just like a tart. c. The young favourite of an older man; a catamite. Also loosely, a male prostitute. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male > boy or youth bardash1550 catamite?1552 Ganymede1558 ingle1592 ningle1602 Ganymedean1603 pathic1605 prostitute1654 love-boy1655 punk1698 chicken1914 tart1935 bumboy1937 mo1968 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > male prostitute sellary1598 spintry1598 varlet1609 whore1609 prostitute1761 renter1893 trade1919 pimp1942 call boy1943 rent1967 rent boy1969 tart1976 1935 I. Miller School Tie ii. ix. 110 Being a tart. The sort of thing you were getting up to with Black last Easter term. 1943 D. Welch Jrnl. 23 Feb. (1952) 43 A week afterwards I had a letter from this old boy—quite elaborately romantic... As Geoffrey approached I held the letter down, against me. ‘What are you engrossed in?’ he jeered... ‘A tart-note I bet. You've had a tart-note.’ 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. v. 95 I can usually manage a tart's holiday at Cannes or Ischia. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Jan. 100/3 He nearly loses the boy to a male tart in the city. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 401/4 The boys that Isherwood and his friends picked up were not professional tarts only out for what they could get. Compounds C1. General attributive. tart-dish n. ΚΠ 1782 W. Withering in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 329 Vessels..made like a common tart-dish, with a spreading border. tart-maker n. ΚΠ 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 May 3/2 Verses, eulogizing the tart~maker and her handiwork. tart-seller n. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 199/1 I've been a cake and a tart-seller in the streets for seven or eight years. C2. † tart-stuff n. a confection of fruit for making tarts (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > fruit prepared for tarts tart-stuff1623 1623 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. xlvii Lumpe sugar for tarte stuffe. tart-woman n. a woman who sells tarts. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of bakery goods > woman wafrestre1377 pie-wife1592 wafer-woman1607 cake woman1648 pie woman1653 pie-lass1837 tart-woman1848 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 446 When he was rich he would buy Leader's pencil-case, and pay the tart-woman. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 119 This boy went invariably into debt with the tart-woman. Draft additions December 2005 tart with a heart n. (also tart with a heart of gold and variants) a (type of) woman (frequently a prostitute) portrayed or characterized as apparently disreputable or unprincipled but intrinsically good-hearted, sensitive, or compassionate, esp. viewed as a stock or clichéd dramatic character. ΚΠ 1961 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 8 Sept. 16/2 The ‘Never on Sunday’ tart with a heart as she has been called in the movie—Melinda Mercouri—made this film in 1955, toward the beginning of her career. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Oct. b6 Instead of well-heeled insiders, Wilson's characters are seedy outsiders, dominated by the old tart-with-the-heart-of-gold theme. 1989 K. Newman Night Mayor (1990) (BNC) 68 Here's another recurrent characterisation... The tart with a heart. 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 16 July (Guide Suppl.) 71 And while Elizabeth Shue as the hooker sharing his final binge is at times dangerously close to being the tart with a heart, she avoids being overshadowed by Cage's performance. Draft additions June 2004 tart card n. British colloquial a business card advertising the services of a prostitute, esp. one placed in a public telephone box. ΚΠ 1994 Today 3 Nov. 3/2 Oxford Street, Baker Street, Edgware Road, Marylebone Road and areas around main line stations are all blackspots in the explosion of tartcards. 2002 Time Out 5 June 35/4 Two years ago it was estimated that the carding system was so popular that around 650 prostitutes were advertising through the use of tart cards in London. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tartadj. Forms: Old English teart, 1500s–1600s tarte, Middle English, 1500s– tart. Etymology: Old English teart ; ulterior derivation obscure: by some referred to root of ter-an to tear v.¹The sense-history is also deficient. Teart appears in Old English only in reference to punishment, pain, or suffering, which use of tart, after many centuries, reappears late in 16th cent. In the Middle English period, the word is known only by a single instance in Chaucer (if this is the adjective), continued after 1500, in sense ‘of a sharp, pungent, or sour taste’. In 1500 it is also applied to a sharp or pungent weapon; and about 1600 to sharp, bitter, caustic, or stinging words. It is difficult from these data to infer the sense-development; and the order here followed is provisional. †1. Of pain, punishment, suffering, discipline, law: Sharp, severe, painful, grievous. Obsolete.In Old English; not known in Middle English; in modern English possibly newly developed from sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [adjective] > severe tartc1000 severe1562 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adjective] heavyc825 grimc900 strongeOE hardeOE drearyOE eileOE sweerOE deara1000 bitterOE tartc1000 smartOE unridec1175 sharp?c1225 straitc1275 grievousc1290 fellc1330 shrewda1387 snella1400 unsterna1400 vilea1400 importunea1425 ungainc1425 thrallc1430 peisant1483 sore?a1513 weighty1540 heinous?1541 urgent?1542 asperous?1567 dure1567 spiny1586 searching1590 hoara1600 vengible1601 flinty1613 tugging1642 atrocious1733 uncannya1774 severe1774 stern1830 punishing1833 hefty1867 solid1916 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [adjective] > severe heavya1000 tartc1000 unridec1175 unsoftc1275 uglya1300 smartc1300 sternc1300 cruelc1384 sharpc1386 shrewda1387 snella1400 painousa1450 painlyc1460 sensible1502 terrible1509 heinous?1541 severe1747 c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 52/1946 Acerrimo, i. asperrimo, on þære teartestan. c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 168/218 Acra, i. tearte. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 344 Ac beo hem gesæd, ær he gewite, ða teartan witu, þæt his heorte mid ðære biternysse beo gehrepod. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. xvi. 89 Themison..tasted not of the tarte conyzance of confession, before the tyrant.1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 44^v My Schoole is tarte, but my counsell is plesant.1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes xi. 81 And Iustinian his Law is tarte; Si quis..auserit, capitali pœna feriatur.a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. ii. 55 Another way The Newes is not so tart. 2. a. Sharp to the sense of taste; †biting, pungent (obsolete); now esp. sour, acid, or acidulous.The sense in the Chaucer quot. is not quite clear. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > strong-tasting strongeOE stithc1000 violenta1398 tartc1405 froughc1420 high?c1430 lecherous1474 strong1588 brusque1601 valiant1607 pertish1635 haut-goût1645 full-flavoured1736 lively1770 gamey1820 ory1854 zestful?1855 robust1873 tangy1875 stewy1895 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > pungent sharpc1000 hotc1175 poignantc1387 keen1398 angryc1400 eager?c1400 tartc1405 argutec1420 mordicative?a1425 mordificative?a1425 piperinea1425 pungitive?a1425 pikea1475 vehement1490 oversharpa1500 over-stronga1500 penetrating?1576 penetrative1578 quick1578 piercing1593 exalted1594 mordicant1603 acute1620 toothed1628 pungent1644 piquant1645 tartarous1655 mordacious1657 piperate1683 peppery1684 tartish1712 hyperoxide1816 snell1835 mordanta1845 shrill1864 piperitious1890 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 383 To boille the chiknes with the Marybones And poudre marchaunt. tart and Galyngale. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 435 Myghty stronge meate For the deuyll to eate; It was tart and punyete. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 219 The Patient is to eat tart and sharp meats and poignant sauces [margin As Radish roots and oxymell]. 1626 E. Deane Spadacrene Anglica (title page) A Brief Treatise of the Acid Tart Fountain in the Forest of Knaresborough. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 327/1 Tarte, sharpe in taste as vinagre is, aigre, poignant.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tarte, acidus.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tarte or somewhat eyger, subacidus.1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged (1809) 356 If you love tart things, add ten drops of oil of vitriol to your pint.1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. viii. 139 Cherries..the juice of which was agreeably tart. †b. Of the sense of taste: Keen. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. E2 Would you be euer faire? and yong? Stout of teeth? and strong of tongue? Tart of palat? quick of eare? View more context for this quotation †3. Sharp, keen (as an edge, point, or weapon). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective] sharpc825 bitel?c1200 keena1225 carving?c1225 fellc1330 trenchantc1330 snarpc1480 cuttinga1533 tart?a1534 undullc1540 steel-sharpa1560 teen1578 unrebated1579 unbated1604 biting1607 eager?1611 unblunted1656 shrewd1878 cutty1903 ?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. sig. cii^v I bought thys dagger at the marte, A sharp poynt and a tarte. 1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) v. sig. L3 Thin like an iron wedge, so sharpe and tart, As twere of purpose made to cleaue Loues hart. 4. figurative. Of words, speech, a speaker: Sharp in tone or tendency, biting, cutting, acrimonious, caustic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] > snappish or sharp-tongued knappish1542 snappish1542 short1591 tart1601 tart-tongued1602 nimble-tongued1608 snapping1642 snapper1673 snip-snap1770 snaggy1781 twittya1825 snappy1834 sharp-tongued1837 snippy1848 snack1883 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective] > of speech or speaker stinginga1529 tart1601 tart-tongued1602 acrimonious1651 acerb1822 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 Pref. 10 Here I renounce all tart and soure speach. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 35 Where wilt thou begin With thy tart phrase, to stinge and nettle him? 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. x. 106 The Cynics..were very tart and satyric in their Declamations against this..kind of Oratorie. 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 185 Sometimes a tart Irony goes for Wit. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋6 Entertaining the Company with tart ill-natured Observations. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxix Her mind was made up, and she grew tart on the least contradiction. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 719 Ill humour..might sometimes impel him to give a tart answer. Compounds tart-tongued adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] > snappish or sharp-tongued knappish1542 snappish1542 short1591 tart1601 tart-tongued1602 nimble-tongued1608 snapping1642 snapper1673 snip-snap1770 snaggy1781 twittya1825 snappy1834 sharp-tongued1837 snippy1848 snack1883 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective] > of speech or speaker stinginga1529 tart1601 tart-tongued1602 acrimonious1651 acerb1822 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 26 b Being a tart-tounged detractor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). tartv.¹ Etymology: < tart adj.: compare to sour. rare. ? Obsolete. 1. transitive. To make tart, to sour; †to make pungent, give pungency to (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > make sour [verb (transitive)] > make pungent quicken1591 tart1616 punge1657 exacuate1674 1616 T. Scott Christs Politician 32 One sponefull of vineger will soone tart a great deale of sweete milke. a1635 T. Randolph Poems (1668) 28 To walk on our own ground..The best of sawce to tart our meats. 2. intransitive. To become tart or sour. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > be or become sour [verb (intransitive)] sour1390 souren1570 tart1629 blinka1665 whig1756 1629 J. Gaule Distractions 244 An ill Liquor that being kept too long, hath tarted and tainted the Caske. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2018). tartv.² Etymology: < tart n. 2. slang. 1. transitive. To treat in the manner of a catamite or tart; to favour.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1930 W. H. Auden Poems 31 For where are Basley who won the Ten, Dickson so tarted by the House, Thomas who kept a sparrow-hawk? 2. To dress up or adorn (a person), usually in a showy or gaudy manner; to titivate; also reflexive and intransitive for reflexive. Frequently transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (transitive)] highta1200 atiffe?c1225 tiff?c1225 wyndre?a1366 kembc1386 picka1393 prunec1395 tifta1400 varnishc1405 finea1425 tifflea1425 quaint1484 embuda1529 trick?1532 trick1545 dill1548 tricka1555 prink1573 smug1588 sponge1588 smudge1589 perk1590 primpc1590 sponge1592 tricksy1598 prime1616 sprug1622 briska1625 to sleek upa1625 trickify1678 prim1688 titivate1705 dandify1823 beflounce1824 befop1866 spry1878 lustrify1886 dude1899 doll1916 tart1938 youthify1945 pansy1946 spiv1947 dolly1958 zhuzh1970 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify the person [verb (reflexive)] preenc1395 prunec1395 prank1546 to set oneself out to the life1604 adonize1611 briska1625 tight1775 to make up1778 tighten1786 smarten1796 pretty1868 tart1938 pansy1946 sharpen1952 primp1959 1938 [implied in: E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iii. 61 After dark, she [sc. London] is like a governess gone to the bad, in a Woolworth tiara, tarted up all wrong. (at tarted adj. a)]. 1952 Archit. Rev. cxii. 371/2 Unfortunately these devices to prevent the neighbourhood's slip from showing, have been ‘tarted-up’ with a variety of recessed panels, pipe ends, exposed brick heads and so forth, which seem to have no function. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 May p. xix There seems nowadays a disposition to tart up Shakespeare as if he cannot be taken straight. 1961 John o' London's 6 July 57/4 Even Jaques Becker..can't resist both tarting and prettying up the Modigliani legend. 1967 Spectator 1 Dec. 690/3 Peacetime seems to have been passed in seducing the daughters of the local townsfolk..or tarting up one's uniform with more feathers or buttons. 1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek ii. 35 You won't be able to tart yourself up like a teenager much longer, Rose. 1976 J. Cooper Harriet ii. xiv. 115 They were tarting up in the Ladies. 1978 Observer 16 Apr. 38/1 American dealers would tart up the junk and sell it at suburban auctions at three times the English price. 3. intransitive. a. To meet or pursue women. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > associate with loose woman whore1547 whore-hunt1597 wench1599 palliardize1619 smock1719 womanize1893 tart1948 1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. v. 30 I bet he's been tarting. 1981 P. Vansittart Death of Robin Hood iv. v. 206 All had tales of adventure... Some claimed to have been tarting. b. Of a girl or woman: to behave like an immoral woman or a ‘tart’; frequently const. (a)round. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > of woman: make herself available to turn up?1616 to put out1928 slut1946 tart1949 lay1955 1949 J. B. Priestley Home is Tomorrow ii. i. 47 I know I've behaved badly tarting around. 1959 K. Waterhouse Billy Liar ii. 33 I would fall to wondering whether she was tarting round the streets with some American airman. 1960 Spectator 18 Nov. 784 The boy would now turn soft and the girl start tarting. 1983 J. Wainwright Their Evil Ways ii. 66 Her mother was tarting around with this other bloke. Draft additions June 2004 intransitive. British colloquial. With about or around. To behave in a flamboyant or showy manner; to flounce around; (also) to mess about, waste time. ΚΠ 1972 A. Bennett Getting On ii. 36 I do not tart about the house in my underpants. 1982 M. Kington Miles & Miles 54 Here she is tarting around in publishing. 1984 D. Lessing Diaries of Jane Somers i. 69 Tarting around the room in one of Georgie's dresses. 1998 Viz June 39/4 How lads, this'll tide wuz awa for half an oo-ah whilst the coppaz an'surljaz aall tart aroond. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.?a1400adj.c1000v.¹1616v.²1930
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