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tart
noun- a woman AUSTRALIA, 1903
- He ain’t going to no flamin’ parties or gettin’ mixed up with no flamin’ tarts whatever. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 232, 1945
- I tipped my voice up like a tart’s. — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 14, 1945
- That tart’s been around, I tell yer. — Robert S. Close, With Hooves of Brass, p. 81, 1961
- We have a great time, me and Simmo. And the tarts! — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 90, 1969
- Poor little tart, she was like one of us, really–all the things she had to put up with. — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 106, 1982
- a promiscuous woman UK, 1887
- [T]hey’d all been with little tarts who’d get behind a back fence with any boy. — Ruth Park, Poor Man’s Orange, p. 184, 1949
- a prostitute UK, 1894
- For heaven’s sake, Jess, do open a window or two; the place stinks like a tarts’ shop. — George Johnston, My Brother Jack, p. 110, 1964
- a girlfriend or sweetheart UK, 1864
- — Barbara Baynton, Trooper Jim Tasman, p. 91, 1917
- If my tart had a bun in the oven I’d flamin’ stick with her!!! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 46, 1968
- a wife or female partner UK, 1864
Rhyming slang for “sweetheart”. - Y’think about feedin’ the kids, an’ payin’ the rent, an’ the effect it’s havin’ on y’tart[.] — Alan Bleasedale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- a weak, ineffectual man UK
A term of abuse, used to call a man a woman; a wider gender-only sense of “tart” than when applied to a woman. - With the doors safely shut, they crowd up against the window and give us the wankers sign and the two-finger salute. Tarts. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 54, 1999
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