Tart vs Currish - What's the difference?
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Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
(of wine) high or too high in acidity.
(figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.
A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
(British, slang) A prostitute.
(British, slang, derogatory) By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
To practice prostitution
To practice promiscuous sex
To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorish,or slutty
Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
Ignoble, mean-spirited.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
*, II.1.3:
*:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.
As adjectives the difference between tart and currish
is that tart is sharp to the taste; acid; sour while currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel.As a noun tart
is a type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.As a verb tart
is to practice prostitution.tart
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tart, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- I ate a very tart apple.
- He gave me a very tart reply.
Derived terms
* tartnessSynonyms
* greenEtymology 2
(etyl) . Cognate to (m).Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia tart)Derived terms
* treacle tartEtymology 3
From by shorteningNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (prostitute) See also * (prostitute) See alsoVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* egg tart * pop tart (slang) * tart upAnagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----currish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].