tart

Senso (English)

Adj

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

Noun

1. 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).
2. A melt (block of wax for use in a tart burner).

Noun

1. (slang) A prostitute.
2. (slang) Any woman with loose sexual morals.

Verb

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

Synonyms

sour

acid

pie

🥧

acrid

hooker

slut

whore

bitter

sharp

astringent

harlot

cake

🍰

sourish

trollop

biting

strumpet

stringent

acidulous

acerbic

prostitute

pungent

trenchant

acidic

acerb

acetous

caustic

keen

slattern

acidulent

acrimonious

acute

bawd

bitch

cocotte

cyprian

fancy woman

flan

floozie

floozy

harsh

ho

lemonlike

lemony

mordant

poignant

pointed

rough

smart

sore

tangy

tarry

tartish

lady of pleasure

mildly sour

pleasantly acid

sharp-worded

slightly strained

sporting lady

subacrid

woman of the street

working girl

peaky

perceptive

perspicacious

flavourful

piercing

pirozhki

mince-pie

acidum

flavorful

discriminative

quick-witted

racy

ready

vinegarish

salty

sardonic

savory

scathing

scrub

seasoned

severe

cutting

sharp-tongued

shrill

slashing

crisp

slick

courtesan

pirogi

snappish

snappy

sneering

sour-tasting

clear

call girl

sourness

spiky

splenetic

stiff

strident

bright

strong

bold

sulky

sullen

surly

flavorful

flavourful

alley cat

tasty

teasing

tramp

beaked

barbed

verjuice

vinegary

frosty

grumpy

hard

fly

✈️

waspish

ache

floosy

hustler

incisive

ingenious

floosie

acuate

fulgurating

lurid

mordacious

piroshki

morose

nasty

old-fashioned

pastry

pasty

peaked

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tɑɹt/

Etymology (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: tart

Inherited from inglese antico: teart

Cognate with scozzese: tairt

Cognate with olandese: tarten

Cognate with tedesco: trotzen

Cognate with albanese: thartë

Cognate with francese antico: torte

In summary

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”).