tarty

tart +‎ -y

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tarty (comparative tartier, superlative tartiest)

1. (Britain, slang) Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.
   • 1991, Gayle Greene, Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition:

     Atwood's Edible Woman offers a brilliant analysis of woman as consumable in consumer capitalism: when Marian turns out in a tarty hairdo and red dress...

   • 2004, Thomas A Reppetto, American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power:

     The vice trust, with equal ingenuity, sent prostitutes dressed in their tartiest outfits into respectable neighborhoods to inquire about apartments for rent.

2. Somewhat tart.
   • 1999, Donna Morrissey, Kit’s Law, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 242:

     Now, I lets mine boil a bit longer than Lizzy, to sweeten the tarty taste.

   • 2005, Dietrich Frohne, Hans Jürgen Pfänder, translated by Inge Alford, Poisonous Plants: A Handbook for Doctors, Pharmacists, Toxicologists, Biologists and Veterinarians, 2nd edition, Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 109, column 3:

     Because of its tarty taste, and the fact that (in animal experiments) it has shown to have a toxic effect, for culinary uses the rape oil is ‘hardened’ (hydrogenation of the double bond!).

   • 2009, Kathleen Lane, Nana Cracks the Case!, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, pages 81–82:

     I mean, sure, the gummy cherry might have a well-balanced sweet and tarty taste, but the gummy frog has a far denser texture, which requires at least three times more chewing than the cherry and is therefore, of the two, a far better value.

• attry, ratty

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.tɨ/

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• Rhymes: -artɨ
• Syllabification: tar‧ty

tarty (passive adjectival)

1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of trzeć

tarty

1. inflection of tarta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• tarty in Polish dictionaries at PWN