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Tardy vs Tarty - What's the difference?

tardy | tarty |

As adjectives the difference between tardy and tarty

is that tardy is late; overdue or delayed while tarty is like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.

As a noun tardy

is a piece of paper given to students who are late to class.

As a verb tardy

is to make tardy.

tardy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Late; overdue or delayed.
    • He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.
  • ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dullard.
    • His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.
  • Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
  • * Sandys
    • Check the tardy flight of time.
  • * Prior
    • tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave
  • (obsolete) Unwary; unready.
    • (Hudibras)
  • (obsolete) Criminal; guilty.
    • (Collier)

    Synonyms

    * (l), (l)

    Usage notes

    * The term suggests habitual lateness. * Somewhat dated in the United Kingdom.

    Noun

    (tardies)
  • (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
    • The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.

    See also

    * tardy slip

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To make tardy.
    • (Shakespeare)

    tarty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, slang) Like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.
  • * 1991 , Gayle Greene, Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition
    • 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...
  • * 2004 , Thomas A Reppetto, American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power
    • 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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