Tarty vs Tarry - What's the difference?
tarty | tarry |
(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
To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.
To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.
To stay somewhere temporarily; to sojourn.
To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
A sojourn.
Resembling tar.
Covered with tar.
As adjectives the difference between tarty and tarry
is that tarty is (british|slang) like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish while tarry is resembling tar.As a verb tarry is
to delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.As a noun tarry is
a sojourn.tarty
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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.
Anagrams
*tarry
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Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tarien, .Verb
(en-verb)- It is true that the Messiah will come, though he may tarry . (
Hitchens
quoting translated Maimonides)
- He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.
- He plodded on, tarrying no further question.