tar tとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 tart, from 古期英語 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”).

形容詞

tart (comparative tarter, superlative tartest)

1. Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.

   I ate a very tart apple.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. (of wine) High or too high in acidity.
3. (figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.

   He gave me a very tart reply.

   • 2026 April 5, Howard LaFranchi, “Trump’s war in Iran puts new strain on alliances. Why this time it’s different.”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     [French president Emmanuel] Macron fired back [at US president Donald Trump] on Thursday with his own tart riposte, telling journalists, “This is not a show. We are talking about war and peace. ... When you want to be serious,” he continued, “you don’t say every day the opposite of what you said the day before.”

同意語

• (of wine: high in acidity): green

派生語

• tart cherry
• tarten
• tartly
• tartness

語源 2

From 中期英語 tart, tarte, from Old French tarte, tartre (“flat pastry”) (compare Medieval Latin tarta), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Old French torte, tourte, from Latin turta, perhaps from tŏrta f (“twisted”), in which case it would be cognate to torta.

名詞

tart (plural tarts)

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).

派生語

関連する語

• tort
• torta
• torte
• torture

派生した語

• → Cantonese: 撻 / 挞 (taat)

語源 3

From a rebracketing of sweetheart, or from jam tart (“attractive woman”) by shortening.

名詞

tart (plural tarts)

1. (British, slang) A prostitute.
2. (slang, derogatory, by extension) Any woman with loose sexual morals.
   • 1950, Roy E. Blick (police inspector), testimony before the United States Congress‎:

     We know the majority of the places that these tarts will hang out at.

   • 1991, “Until the End of the World”, in Bono (lyrics), Achtung Baby, performed by U2:

     In the garden I was playing the tart / I kissed your lips and broke your heart

   • 1994, George Dawes Green, chapter 27, in The Caveman’s Valentine, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN; ebook edition, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, March 2001, →ISBN:

     The NYU [New York University] tarts and the club slime, the art holes and the once-a-week bridge-and-tunnel leatherettes, the spikes and the usual dregs and walking garbage, Eel was giving them all the hiss.

   • 2013 November 13, “Costa Concordia captain's mistress reveals late night sex sessions in cabin before doomed cruise liner sank”, in Daily Mirror‎:

     She told the Sun: "I'm talked about as an 'easy girl', the 'blonde slut' who distracted the captain and caused the crash. It's so wrong. I'm not some little tart."

同意語

• (prostitute): See also Thesaurus:prostitute
• (prostitute): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

派生語

動詞

tart (third-person singular simple present tarts, present participle tarting, simple past and past participle tarted)

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

派生語

• pop tart (slang)
• tart up

アナグラム

• Trat, trat, attr

別の表記

• (Early ME) teart
• tarte, terte

発音

• IPA: /tart/
• (dialectal) IPA: /tɛːrt/

形容詞

tart (rare)

1. Sour, tart; having much acidity.
2. (Early Middle English) Acute, keen; showing sharpness.

派生した語

• English: tart, teart
• Scots: tairt

参照

• “tart, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 December 2018.

語源 2

名詞

tart

1. alternative form of tarte