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tartier

tartier is the comparative form of tarty.

Meaning of tarty

Adjective

tarty (comparative tartier, superlative tartiest)

  1. (UK, slang) Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.
    • 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...1991, Gayle Greene, Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition
  2. Somewhat tart.
    • Now, I lets mine boil a bit longer than Lizzy, to sweeten the tarty taste.1999, Donna Morrissey, Kit’s Law, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 242

Questions about tartier

What is tartier the comparative form of?
Tartier is the comparative form of tarty.

Words near tartier in the dictionary

  1. Tartessian
  2. Tartessians
  3. Tartessos
  4. Tartessus
  5. tartest
  6. tartier
  7. tartiest
  8. tartiflette
  9. tartiflettes
  10. tartily
  11. tartine

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