tart

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Toggle American Heritage Dictionary definitions American Heritage Dictionary (7)

  1. adjective Having a sharp pungent taste; sour. See Synonyms at sour.
  2. adjective Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.
  3. noun A pastry shell with shallow sides, no top crust, and any of various fillings.
  4. noun Chiefly British A pie.
  5. noun A prostitute.
  6. noun A woman considered to be sexually promiscuous.
  7. transitive verb Chiefly British To dress up or make fancy in a tawdry, garish way. Often used with up.

Toggle Century Dictionary definitions Century Dictionary (5)

  1. Sharp to the taste; acidulous: as, a tart apple.
  2. Figuratively, sharp; keen; severe; cutting; biting: as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes. B. Jonson, Underwoods, xii. A tart temper never mellows with age. Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 49.
  3. Synonyms Sour, caustic. See tartness.
  4. To make acid or piquant. [Rare.] To walk on our own ground a stomach gets The best of sauce to tart our meats. Randolph, tr. of Second Epode of Horace.
  5. A pie or piece of pastry, consisting generally of fruit baked in paste. Compare pie. I have, with much ado, maintained my post hitherto at the dessert, and every day eat tart in the face of my patrou. Addison, Guardian, No. 163. Now rolling years have weaned us from jam and raspberrytart. C. S. Calverley, Visions.

Toggle GNU Webster's 1913 definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

  1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.
  2. A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

  1. a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust
  2. a small open pie with a fruit filling
  3. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
  4. harsh
  5. tasting sour like a lemon

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