tarty

English

Etymology

tart +‎ -y

Pronunciation
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Adjective

tarty (comparative tartier, superlative tartiest)

  1. (Britain, 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.

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtar.tɨ/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -artɨ
  • Syllabification: tar‧ty

Participle

tarty

  1. masculine singular passive adjectival participle of trzeć

Declension
Declension of tarty
case singular plural
masculine personal/animate masculine inanimate neuter feminine virile nonvirile
nominative, vocative tarty tarte tarta tarci tarte
genitive tartego tartej tartych
dative tartemu tartym
accusative tartego tarty tarte tartą tartych tarte
instrumental tartym tartymi
locative tartej tartych

Noun

tarty

  1. inflection of tarta:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading
  • tarty in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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