tart
tart 英 [tɑ:t] 美 [tɑrt]
adj. 酸的；尖刻的 n. 果馅饼；
名词复数:tarts
- A tart is small pie filled with fruit or custard, with no top crust, like the cherry tarts you bought at the bakery.
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- adj. 酸的；尖刻的
- n. 果馅饼；
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1. a strawberry tart
草莓馅饼
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2. tart apples
酸苹果
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3. a tart reply
尖刻的答覆
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4. 'Too late!’ said my mother tartly.
“早干什么去了！”我母亲刻薄地说。
- tart (adj.) "having a sharp taste," 1520s, also attested once, obscurely, from late 14c., perhaps from Old English teart "painful, sharp, severe, rough" (in reference to punishment, pain, suffering), from Germanic *ter-t-, from PIE root *der- "to split, flay, peel." But the gap in the record is unexplained. Figurative use, with reference to words, speech, etc., is attested from c. 1600. Related: Tartly; tartness, both also absent in Middle English.
- tart (n.1) "small pie," late 14c., from Old French tarte "flat, open-topped pastry" (13c.), possibly an alteration of torte, from Late Latin torta "round loaf of bread" (in Medieval Latin "a cake, tart"), perhaps from past participle of torquere "to twist" (from PIE root *terkw- "to twist").
- tart (n.2) 1887, "prostitute, immoral woman," from earlier use as a term of endearment to a girl or woman (1864), sometimes said to be a shortening of sweetheart. But another theory traces it to jam-tart (see tart (n.1)), which was British slang early 19c. for "attractive woman." Diminutive tartlet attested from 1890. To tart (something) up is from 1938. Related: Tarted.
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