tarty

English

Etymology

From tart +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

tarty (comparative tartier, superlative tartiest)

1. (British, 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.

Anagrams

• attry, ratty

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.tɘ/

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• Rhymes: -artɘ
• Syllabification: tar‧ty

Participle

tarty (passive adjectival)

1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of trzeć

Declension

Declension of tarty (hard)

singular					plural
	masculine animate	masculine inanimate	feminine	neuter	virile (= masculine personal)	non-virile
nominative	tarty		tarta	tarte	tarci	tarte
genitive	tartego		tartej	tartego	tartych
dative	tartemu		tartej	tartemu	tartym
accusative	tartego	tarty	tartą	tarte	tartych	tarte
instrumental	tartym		tartą	tartym	tartymi
locative	tartym		tartej	tartym	tartych

Noun

tarty

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

Further reading

• tarty in Polish dictionaries at PWN