tartlet
UK/ˈtɑːt.lət/US/ˈtɑɹt.lət/
tartlet noun: a small tart (pastry).
Noun
tartlet (plural tartlets)
- A small tart (pastry).
- Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry.1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51
- A promiscuous young woman.
- The only excitement I had was watching a tartlet in a teeny-weeny bikini that barely contained her truly mammoth assets light a cigarette and suck on it with puckered, painted, Lolita lips.1992, Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2010, →ISBN
- "She's a whore. A tartlet. Junia, he bought her for a hundred and fifty guineas, and then had the nerve to ask me to marry him!"2010, Jo Beverley, Emily and the Dark Angel, Signet Eclipse, published 2010, →ISBN
tartlet meaning in Tamil
tartlet in Tamil
- பொதியப்பத்துண்டு
Examples of tartlet in a sentence
- She hated that a large chunk of Jerry's income supported his little tartlets instead of being directed into their household as it should have been..2010, Pastor Shirley, S.E.C.R.E.T.S. of the First Ladies, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2010, →ISBN, page 77:
- I have yet to see a Hollywood tartlet apologize for weighing 95 pounds, or for playing dumb to stay popular, or for always being the sidekick when there's action.2012 July 29, Sarah Nicole Prickett, “Kristen Stewart should not have apologized, and here's why”, in The Globe and Mail:
Forms of tartlet
| plural | tartlets |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tartelette |
| alternative form (obsolete) | tartlette |
Origin of tartlet
From Middle English tartelet, from Old French tartelette; equivalent to tart + -let.
Words that rhyme with tartlet
Questions about tartlet
- What does tartlet mean?
- Tartlet means a small tart (pastry).
- What is tartlet in Tamil?
- Tartlet in Tamil is பொதியப்பத்துண்டு. See Tartlet meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use tartlet in a sentence?
- She hated that a large chunk of Jerry's income supported his little tartlets instead of being directed into their household as it should have been..
- What part of speech is tartlet?
- Tartlet is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tartlet?
- Tartlet is pronounced /ˈtɑːt.lət/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tartlet?
- The plural of tartlet is tartlets.
Words near tartlet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tartlet (page history and authors); tartlet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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