tart

adj

Etymology: 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”).

1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.

   “I ate a very tart apple.”

2. High or too high in acidity.
3. Sharp; keen; severe.

   “He gave me a very tart reply.”

   “[French president Emmanuel] Macron fired back [at US president Donald Trump] on Thursday with his own tart riposte, telling journalists, “This is not a show. We are talking about war and peace. ... When you want to be serious,” he continued, “you don’t say every day the opposite of what you said the day before.””

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From a rebracketing of sweetheart, or from jam tart (“attractive woman”) by shortening.

1. A prostitute.
2. Any woman with loose sexual morals.

   “We know the majority of the places that these tarts will hang out at.”

   “In the garden I was playing the tart / I kissed your lips and broke your heart”

verb

Etymology: From a rebracketing of sweetheart, or from jam tart (“attractive woman”) by shortening.

1. To practice prostitution.
2. To practice promiscuous sex.
3. To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.