tarty
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tarty (comparative tartier, superlative tartiest)
- (UK, 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.
- 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.
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tarty (passive adjectival)
- masculine singular passive adjectival participle of trzeć
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Declension of tarty (hard)
singular | plural | |||||
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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 |
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tarty
- inflection of tarta:
Further reading edit
- tarty in Polish dictionaries at PWN