Tarty vs Arty - What's the difference?
tarty | arty |
(British, slang) Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.
* 1991 , Gayle Greene, Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition
* 2004 , Thomas A Reppetto, American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power
Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.
As adjectives the difference between tarty and arty
is that tarty is like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish while arty is pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.As a proper noun Arty is
a diminutive of the male given name Arthur.tarty
English
Adjective
(er)- 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.