Front | tart |
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Pron | [tɑːrt] |
Back | 【tart】 adj.酸的 Tart apples taste sharp and are pleasantly acid in their taste. 酸苹果的味道酸,但酸得令人舒服。 |
Vocab | tarttasting sour like a lemon
A tart is small pie filled with fruit or custard, with no top crust, like the cherry tarts you bought at the bakery. As an adjective, tart describes a sour taste, like lemon, or harsh words, like your friend's tart reply to a question that makes her mad. In the 19th century, tart was British slang for "pretty woman." Some believe it is a shortening of "sweetheart." But by the end of that century, tart described a prostitute, something many language scholars trace back to the tart that you get at the bakery. All forms of 'tart' will appear on average once every 1358 pages. tart tartlet tartly tartness |
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