Definition/Meaning of tart

• English - Adjective: tart (comparative tarter, superlative tartest) Sharp to the taste; acid; sour. I ate a very tart apple. (of wine) High or too high in acidity . (figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe. He gave me a very tart reply. 2026 April 5, Howard LaFranchi, “Trump’s war in Iran puts new strain on alliances. Why this time it’s different.”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian…
• English - Noun: tart (plural tarts) A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg , butter , historically even meat or other savory fillings). A melt (block of wax for use in a tart burner ). tart (plural tarts) (UK, slang) A prostitute . (broadly, derogatory, slang) Any woman with loose sexual…
• English - Verb: tart (third-person singular simple present tarts, present participle tarting, simple past and past participle tarted) To practice prostitution . To practice promiscuous sex. To dress garish ly, ostentatious ly, whorish ly, or slut tily.
• English - Anagrams: attr
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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,…