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Promiscuous vs Tartlet - What's the difference?

promiscuous | tartlet |

As an adjective promiscuous

is made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.

As a noun tartlet is

a small tart (pastry).

promiscuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
  • * 1667 , , Book 1, ll. 379-80
    • Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
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    • they had both been educated on plans at once narrow and promiscuous , first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
  • Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
  • indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
  • (networking) The mode in which a gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

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    * See also * See also * (made up of various disparate elements) motley

    Derived terms

    * promiscuity * promiscuousness

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    tartlet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small tart (pastry)
  • (derogatory, slang) A girl or young woman considered promiscuous.
  • * 1992 , Stephen Coonts, The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America , Open Road Integrated Media (2010), ISBN 9781453205570, unnumbered page:
    • 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.
  • * 2010 , Jo Beverley, Emily and the Dark Angel , Signet Eclipse (2010), ISBN 9780451231253, unnumbered page:
    • "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 , Pastor Shirley, S.E.C.R.E.T.S. of the First Ladies , Dog Ear Publishing (2010), ISBN 9781608442256, page 77:
    • 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..
  • * 2011 , A. K. Wrox, Arrabella Candellarbra & The Questy Thing to End All Questy Things , Clan Destine Press (2011), ISBN 9780980790061, unnumbered page:
    • 'Be gone tartlets ! Your feminine charms hold no power over me,' he said,
  • * 2012 , Sarah Nicole Prickett, " Kristen Stewart should not have apologized, and here's why", The Globe and Mail , 29 July 2012:
    • 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.

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