Tasty vs Tarty - What's the difference?
tasty | tarty |
Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor; delicious.
(obsolete) Having or showing good taste; tasteful.
(slang) Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.
(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
As adjectives the difference between tasty and tarty
is that tasty is having a pleasant or satisfying flavor; delicious while tarty is (british|slang) like a tart (promiscuous woman); slutty, whorish.tasty
English
Adjective
(er)- ''You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.
- ''These items will make an attractive and tasty display.
Synonyms
* See alsotarty
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.
