tart words

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• tart noir — (tart NWAHR) n. Mystery or crime novels in which the main character is a woman who is tough, independent, and sexy. Example Citation: Henderson is best known for her acclaimed female detective series, the saucy, sexy, go girl chronicles of Sam… …   New words

• tart — adj *sour, acid, acidulous, dry Analogous words: piquant, *pungent: *sharp, keen: curt, brusque, blunt (see BLUFF): *irritable, snappish, waspish …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• tart — [[t]tɑ͟ː(r)t[/t]] tarts, tarting, tarted 1) N VAR A tart is a shallow pastry case with a filling of food, especially sweet food. ...jam tarts. ...a slice of home made tart. 2) ADJ GRADED If something such as fruit is tart, it has a sharp taste.… …   English dictionary

• tart — Call a woman a tart and she ll take offence, and rightly so. There are two current meanings for a female tart, both derogatory: 1. a prostitute, or a promiscuous woman 2. an offensive slang term for a girl or woman. But it wasn t always the case …   Australian idioms

• tart — {{11}}tart (adj.) having a sharp taste, late 14c., perhaps from O.E. teart painful, sharp, severe (in ref. to punishment, pain, suffering), of unknown origin; possibly related to the root of teran to tear. Fig. use, with ref. to words, speech,… …   Etymology dictionary

• tart — Synonyms and related words: Danish pastry, French pastry, Jezebel, abusive, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, acetose, acetous, acid, acidic, acidulated, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, amaroidal, astringent, bad woman, baggage,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• The Tart — Infobox Newspaper name = The Tart type = satirical newspaper / webzine | format = tabloid foundation = 2007 owners = TartMedia Group editor = Michael Cox | headquarters = London website = [http://www.thetartpaper.com thetartpaper.com] The Tart is …   Wikipedia

• List of Spanish words of Celtic origin — This is a list of Spanish words of Celtic origin. It is further divided into words that are known (or thought) to have come from Gaulish and those that have come from an undetermined Celtic source. Some of these words existed in Latin as… …   Wikipedia

• honey catches more flies than vinegar — Soft or ingratiating words achieve more than sharpness. cf. St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622) in L. de la Rivière Vie de..François de Sales (1624) 584: souvenez vous que l’on prends plus de mouches avec une cuillerée de miel qu’avec cent barils de …   Proverbs new dictionary

• Consciousness — Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century. Consciousness is a term that refers to the relati …   Wikipedia

• sour — sour, acid, acidulous, tart, dry mean having a taste devoid of sweetness. All but dry suggest the taste of lemons, vinegar, or of most unripe fruits. Sour and acid are often interchangeable, but sour is more likely to be chosen to describe… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms