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    'Tarty' describes a woman's clothes, make-up, or look as being cheap and sexually available — too much, too tight, too bright, in a way the speaker of. It is British and Irish, informal, and it is an insult. You should understand this word rather than use it. Two things matter here. First, it is a judgement about respectability, not a description of a fact — 'tarty' means the speaker thinks a woman looks like she is trying too hard to attract men, and different speakers draw that line in wildly different places. Second, it is one-sided: there is no real male equivalent in ordinary use, which tells you what the word is doing. It comes from 'tart', an old slang word for a prostitute (which itself came, oddly, from 'sweetheart' — the use came first and soured). Because of that history, calling a woman's outfit tarty is not a light comment; it can land as a serious insult about her character. Younger British speakers now often use it half-jokingly about their own clothes ('these shoes are a bit tarty, aren't they?'), and among close friends that self-mocking use is fairly common. But directed at someone else, it is rude. As a , know it when you hear it in a film or a novel, and choose another word yourself.

    (貶)穿得很騷、打扮很俗艷、看起來輕浮的(用來說女生)。英式口語,是罵人的話,不是中性描述。台灣說「很騷」「很花枝」大概是這個力道。建議只要看懂就好,自己不要用。

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成tart + -y (the ending that means 'like a ___'). 'Tart' as slang for a prostitute is probably a shortening of 'sweetheart' — it began as an affectionate name for a woman and turned nasty over time. The pastry 'tart', the sour taste 'tart', and this one are separate words that happen to look alike.

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

tartyadj

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    slangLike 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...
    • The vice trust, with equal ingenuity, sent prostitutes dressed in their tartiest outfits into respectable neighborhoods to inquire about apartments for rent.
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    Somewhat tart.

    • Now, I lets mine boil a bit longer than Lizzy, to sweeten the tarty taste.
    • Because of its tarty taste, and the fact that (in animal experiments) it has shown to have a toxic effect, for culinary uses the rape oil is ‘hardened’ (hydrogenation of the double bond!).

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。