tart
/tɑɹt/ · adj
Meaning
- Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
- High or too high in acidity.
- Sharp; keen; severe.
- 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.
- To practice prostitution.
- To practice promiscuous sex.
- To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.
- A surname.
Etymology / origin
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”).
- thartë(Albanian)→
- trotzen(German)→
- tarten(Dutch)→
- tairt(sco)→
- *der-(ine-pro)→
- *teraną(gem-pro)→
- *tartaz(gem-pro)→
- *tart(gmw-pro)→
- teart(Old English)→
- tart(Middle English)→
- tart (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, inh, der, der, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- 撻(Chinese) (bor)
- tarto(Ido) (bor)
- torto(Ido) (bor)
- tarta(Spanish) (cog)
- torta(Tagalog) (cog)
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