Definitions for tart

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tart tart

Spelling: [tahrt]

IPA: /tɑrt/

Tart is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in tart (artt).

Definitions for tart

noun

1. a small pie filled with cooked fruit or other sweetened preparation, usually having no top crust.
2. a covered pie containing fruit or the like.
3. Slang. a prostitute or promiscuous woman.

adjective

1. sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
2. sharp in character, spirit, or expression; cutting; biting: Synonyms: sarcastic, barbed, caustic, acerbic, acrimonious. Antonyms: sweet, kind, gentle, gracious, benign.

Verb phrases

1. tart up, Slang. to adorn, dress, or decorate, especially in a flamboyant manner:

Origin of tart

before 1000; Middle English; Old English teart sharp, rough; akin to Dutch tarten to defy, Middle High German traz defiance

Examples for tart

Some tart messages and answers were exchanged on this occasion.

She is routinely dismissed by Madrid wits as “a Danish tart.”

To be sent up with the cheese, or, if you like, with the tart.

They taste of red and black berries, currants, cranberries, strawberries, mulberries and cherries, tart and sweet.

It was a candy-colored teen comedy that cut the usual sugar-sweetness with tart dialogue and sharp writing.

Bake for 15 minutes, remove the tart shell, and reduce the oven temperature to 325°F (163°C).

He changed his meat plate now, and helped him lavishly to tart.

As for her tart retorts, terrifying to bores and toadies, they only amused him.

And should we bid him bring us yet another course, I trow his answer will be tart!

But why do they have to tart up what used to be classy red carpet events or football extravaganzas?