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| tartar sauce
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tart
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tart has 3 senses
- tart(n = noun.person) bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, whore, woman of the street, working girl - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; Array has particulars: call girl, camp follower, comfort woman, ianfu, demimondaine, floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, white slave
- tart(n = noun.food) Array - a small open pie with a fruit filling; Array has particulars: quiche, apple tart, lobster tart, tartlet
- tart(n = noun.food) Array - a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust; Array is a kind of pastry
is a kind of adult female, woman
is a kind of pie
Derived form noun tartlet1
has particulars: apple tart
Derived form noun tartlet1
Adjective tart has 2 senses
- tart(s = adj.all) lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy - tasting sour like a lemon; Array Derived forms noun tartness2, noun tartness1
- tart(s = adj.all) sharp, sharp-worded - harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark" Derived form noun tartness3
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke. [1913 Webster]"Why art thou tart, my brother?" [1913 Webster]
tart, n. [OE. tarte, F. tarte; perhaps originally the same word as tourte, LL. torta, fr. L. tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist, bend, wind, because tarts were originally made of a twisted shape. Cf. Torture, n. ].
A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tart, n.
1 an open pastry case containing jam etc.
2 esp. Brit. a pie with a fruit or sweet filling.
1 an open pastry case containing jam etc.
2 esp. Brit. a pie with a fruit or sweet filling.
Derivative
tartlet n.
tart, n. & v.
--n. sl.
1 a prostitute; a promiscuous woman.
2 sl. offens. a girl or woman.
--v. (foll. by up) esp. Brit. colloq.
1 tr. (usu. refl.) smarten (oneself or a thing) up, esp. flashily or gaudily.
2 intr. dress up gaudily.
--n. sl.
1 a prostitute; a promiscuous woman.
2 sl. offens. a girl or woman.
--v. (foll. by up) esp. Brit. colloq.
1 tr. (usu. refl.) smarten (oneself or a thing) up, esp. flashily or gaudily.
2 intr. dress up gaudily.
tart, adj.
1 sharp or acid in taste.
2 (of a remark etc.) cutting, bitter.
1 sharp or acid in taste.
2 (of a remark etc.) cutting, bitter.
Derivative
tartly adv. tartness n.
Etymology
OE teart, of unkn. orig.
THESAURUS
tart
Danish pastry, French pastry, Jezebel, abusive, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, acetose, acetous, acid, acidic, acidulated, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, amaroidal, astringent, bad woman, baggage, baklava, barbed, bimbo, bitch, biting, bitter, bitter as gall, blintz, broad, caustic, chippy, chocolate eclair, clitoromaniac, coarse, cocotte, corroding, corrosive, courtesan, crab, crabbed, cream puff, crusty, cutting, cynical, double-edged, dowdy, doxy, drab, dry, easy lay, easy woman, eclair, edged, escharotic, fallen woman, fierce, fille de joie, flan, floozy, frail sister, green, grisette, hard, harlot, harridan, harsh, hooker, hussy, hysteromaniac, incisive, jade, keen, loose woman, mordacious, mordant, nasty, nymph, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, penetrating, pickled, pickup, pie, piercing, piquant, poignant, prostitute, puff, pungent, quean, quiche, rigorous, rosette, rough, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, scathing, scorching, sec, severe, sharp, slut, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, stabbing, stinging, streetwalker, strident, stringent, strudel, strumpet, tangy, tartish, testy, timbale, tipsy cake, trenchant, trifle, trollop, trull, turnover, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened, uteromaniac, vehement, vicious, vinegarish, vinegary, violent, virulent, vitriolic, vol-au-vent, wanton, wench, whore, withering, working girlROGET THESAURUS
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Sweetness
N sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.Sourness
N sourness, acid, acidity, low pH, acetous fermentation, lactic fermentation, vinegar, verjuice, crab, alum, acetic acid, lactic acid, sour, acid, acidulous, acidulated, tart, crabbed, acetous, acetose, acerb, acetic, sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent, subacid, styptic, hard, rough, sour as a lemon, (4) Odor.
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