tart

Definitions

General English

  • noun a woman who looks or dresses like a prostitute

Food

  • A shallow dish-shaped open pastry case usually shortcrust or flan pastry with a filling which may either be baked with the case e.g. Bakewell tart, or added later to a case which has been baked blind e.g. custard tart and most french fruit tarts.

Slang

  • noun a promiscuous, vulgar or sexually provocative woman. This modern sense of the word has gradually supplanted the older meaning which was simply a woman or sweetheart. As a term of affection (inspired by the pastry sweetmeat and reinforced by ‘sweetheart’), tart was applied to women of all ages from the mid-19th century. By the early years of the 20th century it was more often used of the flighty or immoral and by the inter-war years often referred to prostitutes. In modern theatrical, gay (where it is often used of men), cockney and Australian speech, tart is still used affectionately.

Travel

  • adjective bitter in flavour
  • noun a pastry case usually filled with sweet food, but sometimes also savoury

Wine

  • used to describe a wine that is acidic and harsh or sharp to taste
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