tarty
/ˈtɑːti
/adjective (tartier, tartiest) British informal
1(Of a woman) dressed in a sexually provocative manner that is considered to be in bad taste: it’s nice to see a young girl dressed up prettily without looking tarty or freaky...
- They lingered at the entrance to a bar and watched a tarty lady with a spiky black wig and false red nails attempt to entice a fat German tourist.
- Rebecca is best known for playing Karen in Paul Abbott's Shameless, the mouthy and tarty daughter of Frank's girlfriend, Sheila.
- These days, it's mainly host to cheesy 70s and student nights - just drive past on any Saturday and you're bound to see packs of tarty girls fighting over taxis and being sick in the gutter.
1.1(Of clothes) contributing to a sexually provocative appearance.Normally, you would notice the danger signs - the need for control, the short attention span, the tarty clothes, the insatiable insecurity, the hunger for excitement - and take appropriate action....
- After I had dismissed the skin inflaming make-up and the tatty plastic jewellery, all I was left with were surly-looking dolls wearing clompy shoes and tarty skirts that cost the earth.
- The moral crusader commented that she ‘had seen all sorts of things’ in the seedy back streets of London, but she did manage to raise a smile while looking at tarty outfits in a shop window.
Derivatives
tartily
- I also wanted my breasts pointing forward, not pushing tartily upwards into a cleavage like a pigeon's chest.
- Acting talent isn't important compared to an ability to schmooze tartily on the red carpet.
- One time I went clubbing when I was 17 and 3 very tartily dressed girls, obviously about 14, got turned away in front of us.
tartiness
- Valentina - the narrator's father's new wife - is a mesmerising combination of desperation and manipulation, vulnerability and aggression, cheap tartiness and pathos.
- Between the painted up like street trash tartiness of the oral visuals, and the otherwise static sense of movement, the adventures of Clutch Cargo were not really animated movies.