tart

Meanings

Plural: tarts

Noun

a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
a small open pie with a fruit filling
a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust
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).
A prostitute.
Any woman with loose sexual morals.

Adjective Satellite

tasting sour like a lemon
harsh
- "a tart remark"

Adj

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
high or too high in acidity.
Sharp; keen; severe.

Verb

To practice prostitution.
To practice promiscuous sex.
To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.

Origin / Etymology

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, mock”), perhaps Albanian thartë (“sour, acid, sharp”).

Synonyms

bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, green, harlot, lady of pleasure, lemonlike, lemony, prostitute, sharp, sharp-worded, sourish, sporting lady, tangy, whore, woman of the street, working girl

Scrabble Score: 4

tart is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tart is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tart is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

tart is a valid Words With Friends word