Tart

subs. (common).—Primarily a girl, chaste or not; now (unless loosely used) a wanton, mistress, ‘GOOD-ONE’ (q.v.). Hence TARTLET (a diminutive).

  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.  [Note: The distinction between Woman, Wife, Concubine, Mistress, Harlot, and Bawd is very loosely observed in literary and popular usage, both in English and French.] Abandoned woman (or, generic, abandoned habits, q.v.); abbess; academician; ammunition wife (or whore); anonyma; aphrodisian dame; artichoke; article; Aspasia; Athanasian wench; aunt (SHAKESPEARE); autem-mort.

  Baby; badger; baggage; bangster; Bankside lady; barber’s chair; barrack-hack; bat; bawd; bawdy-basket; bed-fagot; bed-fellow; bed-maker; bed-thrall (W. MORRIS); beef; best girl; bird (SHAKESPEARE); bird-of-the-game; bit; bit of stuff (mutton, fish, muslin, calico, etc.); bitch; bite; bloss; blouzalinda; blouzabella; blowze; blow; blowen (or blowing); bobtail; bona; bona-roba (SHAKESPEARE, FLETCHER, etc.); brevet-wife; brim; brimstone; brown Bess; bulker; bum- (or bottom-) worker; bunter; burerk (or burick); buss-beggar; buttered-bun; buttock; buttock-broker; buttock-and-file (whore and pickpocket); buttock-and-twang (or -sham file = whore and no pickpocket).

  Cab-moll; canary; canary-bird; carrion; carry-knave; case-vrow; cast-off; cat; chauvering donna (or moll); chopper; cleaver; cockatrice; cock-chafer; cocktail; coleman hedge (HALLIWELL); Columbine; commodity (DEKKER); common Jack; common sewer; concubine; convenient; cooler; cotton-top; Covent-garden nun (vestal, or abbess); cow; crack; cracked pitcher; croshabell (GREENE); cruiser; cunt; curbstone sailor; cut; Cyprian.

  Dart (SKELTON); dasher; dalilah; daughter-of-Eve; dell; demi-mondaine; demi-rep; dickey-bird; disorderly; dolly; dolly-mop; dona; donny (HALLIWELL); dopey; doorkeeper (DEKKER); double-barrelled gun; dove; dowsabel; dowse; doxy; drab; drap; dragon (FLETCHER); dress-lodger; dromaky; drury-lane vestal; dulcibel; dulcinea; dutch; dutch widow.

  Easy virgin; easy virtue (or woman); evening-star; everlasting daughter-of-Eve.

  Fad-cattle (generic); fagot; fancy-fagot; family of love (generic); fancy-piece; fancy-woman; feather-bed and pillows; fen; file (LANGLAND); filth (SHAKESPEARE); fire-ship (= a rotten whore); flag-about; flagger; flapper; flash-mollisher; flash-tail; Fleet-street houri (or dove); flesh-broker; fling-dust; flip-flap; flirt-gill (SHAKESPEARE, SCOTT); flirt-gillian; Flirtina Cop-all; florence; fly-by-night; fly-girl (-donna, or -dame); foreskin-hunter; frigate; free-lance; froe; fuckstress; Fulham virgin.

  Gal; gallimaufry (SHAKESPEARE); game (generic); game-hen (-pullet, or woman); gamester (SHAKESPEARE, JONSON); garrison-hack; gay-girl (-bit, piece or woman: CHAUCER); gear (SHAKESPEARE: generic); gig (CHAUCER); giggler; giglet (UDALL, SHAKESPEARE, MASSINGER); gill (FLORIO); gill-flirt (FLORIO, COTGRAVE); girl; gixie (FLORIO, COTGRAVE); goat-milker; gobble-prick (GROSE); go-between; good-girl (or good-one: COTGRAVE); gook; graduate; grass-widow; GREEN-GOODS (q.v.); green-goose (SHAKESPEARE, FLETCHER); guinea-hen; guttersnipe.

  Hackney (or HACKSTER: SHAKESPEARE, NASHE); hair (generic); harlotry (generic and individual: SKELTON, WYCHERLEY, CONGREVE); harridan (GROSE); Haymarket-ware; hedge-creeper (BIRD, -whore, etc.: FLORIO); hen; hen-of-the-game; high-flyer; high-roller; highty-tighty; high-priestess of Paphos; hiren (SHAKESPEARE, POOLE, ADAMS, SYLVESTER); hiver; hobby-horse (CHAUCER, SHAKESPEARE); hogoninny; holer (CHAUCER); hooker; hop-picker; hopping wife; horse-breaker; hot-’un; houri; house-bit (-dove, or -piece); house-keeper; house-wife; hunt-about; hurry-whore (TAYLOR); hussy.

  Impure; incognita.

  Jack’s delight; jack-whore; jade; jam; jamtart; jay (SHAKESPEARE); jerker; jezebel; jill; jomer; jude; judy; jug (ROWLEY, CENTLIVRE); junt (MIDDLETON).

  Kate (Scots’); keep; kept-woman (or wench); kiddley-wink; KIDLEATHER (q.v.); kindhearted wench; kittie (DUNBAR, LYNDSAY); kittock (DUNBAR); knock-em-down.

  Laced mutton (SHAKESPEARE, cum suis); lady of accommodating morals (of easy virtue, of the lake, of pleasure, of more complaisance than virtue, etc.; DAVENANT, BUTLER); lady-bird; Lais; laker-lady (= a player’s harlot: JONSON, BROME); land-carrack (DAVENANT); laundress (BRERETON, BURTON, DAVENANT); left-handed wife (KILLIGREW); leman; lift-skirts; ligby; light-frigate; light-heels; light-o’-love (NASHE, FLETCHER); light skirts; lindabrides (KILLIGREW, SCOTT); lioness (DAVIES); little girl; lone duck (or dove); loose woman; loose-bodied gown (DEKKER); loose kirtle; loteby (CHAUCER).

  Mab; MACKEREL (q.v.); madam (RANDOLPH, D’URFEY); Madam Van (or Ran); magdalen (CONGREVE); maggie; magpie; maid marian (SHAKESPEARE); maid-of-all-work; mare; MARK (q.v.); market-dame (WARD); maux (or mawkes); mean bit (MEAN, q.v.); mermaid (MIDDLETON); merry-bit; merry-arsed Christian (GROSE: also of a wencher); merry-legs; Messalina; minx (FLORIO, SHAKESPEARE); miss (EVELYN, BUTLER, DRYDEN); mistress; miss-woman (or missliver: TYNDALE); mob; moll (GROSE); molly (D’URFEY); mollisher; moonlighter; mopsy; morsel (DUNBAR, SHAKESPEARE, MARMION); mort (DEKKER, MIDDLETON, JONSON, FLETCHER, etc.); mort wap-apace; moth; mother (or mother of the maids); mount; Mrs Lukey Props (a tramp’s bawd); MUTTON (generic: GREENE, SHAKESPEARE, cum suis); mutton-broker.

  Nag (MARSTON, SHAKESPEARE); nanny; natural (SHADWELL); naughty dickey-bird; naughty-pack (ADDLINGTON, ROWLEY, SWIFT, etc.); necessary; needlewoman (CARLYLE); nestcock; nescock; nestlecock (FULLER); niece; niggler; night-bird; night-cap; night-gear; night-hawk; night-hunter; nightingale; night-piece; night-poacher; night-shade (FLETCHER); night-snap; night-trader (MASSINGER); night-walker (D’URFEY); nit; nockstress; nocturne; noffgur; nug; nun (FOOTE); nurse; nymph of darkness (or of the pavement).

  Occupant (MARSTON); omnibus; one of my cousins (of us, of them); one and thirty; open-arse (SHAKESPEARE); out; owl.

  Pack; pagan (SHAKESPEARE, MASSINGER); palliasse; panel; paphian; parnel (or pernel: LANGLAND); particular; partridge; peculiar (HERRICK); perfect lady; petticoat (DEKKER, PRIOR, SMOLLETT); pheasant; Phryne; pick-up; piece (SHAKESPEARE, JONSON, SMOLLETT); pillow-mate; pinch-prick; pinnace (DEKKER, CONGREVE); pintle-bit (fancier, maid, or ranger); piper’s wife; pirate; placket (SHAKESPEARE); placket-lady; play-fellow (SHAKESPEARE); plaything (SMOLLETT); pleasure-lady (or merchant); plover (JONSON); poke; poker; poker-breaker; pole-climber; pole-cat (SHAKESPEARE); poll; polly; princess; presbyteress (BALE); presenterer; prancer; pretty dear (SMOLLETT); pretty horse breaker; prick-climber; priest’s niece; prim; pross; prugge; public ledger; pug (MARSTON, COTGRAVE, DRYDEN); punk (SHAKESPEARE, cum suis); pure; purest pure; pure one; Puritan; purse-finder; pusher; put; puttock; puzzle.

  Quædam; quail; quean; queen’s (or king’s) woman; quiet mouse; quicumque vult.

  Rabbit-pie; ragtime girl; rainbow; ramp (CHAUCER, STILL, SHAKESPEARE); ram-skyt; randy-dandy (or ranty-tanty); rannel (HARVEY); rantipole; real lady; receiver-general; rep (or rip); ribaude (ribald, ribold or ribaud); rig (or rigol); rigmutton; rigsby; road (SHAKESPEARE); rover; rump.

  Sad cattle (generic); St. John’s Wood vestal; sample of sin; Saturday-to-Monday; scolopendra; Scotch warming-pan (= a chambermaid); screw; scrudge; sempstress; shake; shakester; she-familiar; she-napper; schickster (or schiksa); shoful-pullet; Shoreditch fury (HALL); short-heels (CHAPMAN); silk-petticoat (WARD); single-woman (PALSGRAVE); sinner (JONSON); sister (DEKKER); sister of charity; skainsmate (SHAKESPEARE); smock-servant (agent, piece, toy, etc.); soiled dove; sparrow; special; spigot-sucker; spinster (FLETCHER, FULLER); spital-whore (or sinner); skit; split-arse mechanic; spoffkins; sporting-piece; sportswoman; squirrel; stammel (or strammel); STAND (q.v.); star-gazer; stew; stingtail; strawfagot; street walker; strum (or strumpet: SHAKESPEARE, FLORIO, COTGRAVE); suburban; summer-cabbage; Sunday-girl; swallow-cock; sweetheart; sweetmeat.

  Tackle; tail; tailist; tail-trader; tail-worker; tally-woman; tart (or tartlet); tenant-in-tail; tender parnell; termer (or term-trotter); Thais; thing; thorough good-natured wench; threepenny uprighter (GROSE); tib; tickletail; tiffity-taffity; tit (or titter); trat (back slang); traviata; treble-cleft; treddle; trigmate (provincial); trillbye (old: trill = the anus: cf. DOUBLE-BARRELLED); trollop; truck; trug; trull; trumpery; twang; tweak; twigger; twofer.

  Under bed-blanket; underwear; unfortunate.

  Vestal; vestal of Pickthatch; virgin-pullet; vroe (or vrow).

  Wagtail; waistcoateer; walking mort; wallop; wanton; warm-’un; week-end girl (or mistress); wench; wench of the game; Whetstone-park deer; whipster; white-apron (POPE); willing tit; wife in water-colours; woman; woman-of-all-work; woman of pleasure; woman of the town; wren; wriggler; wrong-’un.

  FRENCH SYNONYMS.  [R. = Rabelais.] Accrocheuse (R); agenouillée; Agnès; aimeuse; alicaire (R.: Lat. alicaria); almanach de trente-dix mille adresses; ambubage (R.: Lat. ambubaia); andre; Arthurine; asticot (also = penis); ancelle (Lat. ancilla); autel de besoin.

  Bachelière (a student’s mistress); badine; bagasse (R.: also baiasse and bajasse); bague; baladeuse; balance de boucher (qui pèse toutes sortes de viandes—R.); balayeuse; baleine; belle; belle de nuit; belle enfant; belle petite; bezoche (R. and ROQUEFORT: besogner + argot termination -oche: also besoche and besochée); la bicherie (generic: la haute bicherie = fashionable whoredom; [la basse] bicherie = slum harlotry); blanc; blanchisseuse de tuyaux de pipe (R.); blanchisseuse en chemise; boîte (also boîte à jouissance, and boîte à vérole; bonne amie; bonne foutée; bonne jouissance; bonsoir (R.); bordelière (= cab-moll); boulevardière (= suburban); boule rouge; boulonnaise; boutonnière en pantalon; bourre de soie; bourbeteuse; bourdon; braydonne (R.); brimballeuse; bringuenaudée (COTGRAVE); bru (old Fr.).

  Cabaque; cagne; caignardière (R.); caille (QUAIL, q.v.); calège (VIDOCQ); calicote; cambrouse (R.); camélia; le monde camelotte (generic); canicule (R.); cantonnière (R.); carabine (a sawbones’ mistress); carcan à crinoline; carne; carogne; cascadeuse; casserole; catin (also catan and cathos = KITTY); chahuteuse; chameau; chamègue; champisse (R.); chausson; [femme de] chemin (R.); cité d’amour; citrière (R.); cloistrière (R.); cocatrix (R.); cocotte (cocotterie = generic); coignée (R.); colombe; connaissance; consœur; coquine (BALZAC); coureuse (also courieuse; RABELAIS, SCARRON, MOLIÈRE); cousine de vendange (= hop-picking wife); crampeuse; crevette; croupière (= buttock); cul crotté; cul terreux.

  Dame de joie (= lady of pleasure); dame aux camélias DUMAS fils); dame à quatre (sous; dehanchée; dehoussée (R.); demi-castor; demi-mondaine; demoiselle du bitume; demoiselle du Marais (R.); demoiselle du Pont-Neuf; dessalée; donde; donzelle; dossière; drogue; drôlesse; drouine (R.); droule; drue (R.); duchesse (BÉRANGER).

  Ecremeuse; ensoignante (R.); éponge; espèce; étudiante (a student’s whore).

  Farceuse; femme facile; femme galante; femme inconséquente (BALZAC); femme comme il en faut; femme de cavoisi; femme de mal récapte; femme de péché; femme de vie (i.e., vit); femme de terrain; fenêtrière; feuille; fesse (= buttock); feuilletée; fillasse; fille; fille de Cypris; fille de joie (VOLTAIRE); fille de métier; fille du tiers-ordre; fille d’amour; fille publique; fille de feu; fille de jubilation; fille à parties; fille en carte; fille en brème; fille de barrière; fille de trottoir; fille de tourneur; fille de maison; fille de numéro; fillette de pis (R.); fleur de macadam; folieuse (R.); fripesauce (old Fr.): friquenelle (R. and BALZAC).

  Galante; galoise (R., COTGRAVE); galupe; galvaudeuse; gamelle; garce (R. = wench); garçonnière; gaultière (old Fr.); gaupe (R.); gaure; génisse; gibier de bordel; gibier de maquerelle; gibier de Saint-Lazare; gigolette; goipeuse; gonzesse; gothon; gouapeuse; goudine; gouine; goudinette (R.); gouge (R.); gouine (old Fr.); gourgandine (R.: also gourgande); gouvernante (= housekeeper); goyne (R.); grenier à coups de sabre; grenouille; gripette; grisette; grue (R.); guenille (R.); guenippe (R.); guenon; guenuche; gueule; gueuse: guimpe; guinche.

  Harrebane (R.); hirondelle de goguenot; hollière (R.: O. Fr. holler = to run); hore (R.: = whore); horizantale; hourière (R.: also hourieuse).

  Impure.

  Jacqueline; Jeannette; Jeanneton (R., BÉRANGER, HUGO); joueuse de flûte; jouisseuse; journalière.

  Lame; lampe de couvent; lanterne; laqueuse; lard; larguèpe; largue; latine (= a harlot living in the Quartier Latin); laisée; latrine; lésébombe; lescheresse (R.); lévrier d’amour (R.: = a bawd); levrière (R.: also levrette); lice (R.: also lyce, O. Fr.); linge; linotte coiffée; lipète; lolo; lorette; loudière (R.); Louis; louille; louve; loupeuse (R.); lutainpem.

  Maca (also maquerelle = a bawd); Madame (= a bawd: generic); Madame Diogène (‘qui plante des hommes’); Madame de rébut; magnée; magnuce; magneuse; mal peignée; mangeuse de blanc (or de viande cru); manuelle; maquillée; Marane (R.); marcheuse; Margot (also Margotin: generic; la margot = whoredom); marmite; marneuse; marquise; martingale (R.); matelassière; matelas ambulant; maxima (R.); membre de la caravane; menesse; meschine; mignonne; mimi; moché (R.); moclonneuse; mome; momentanée; morceau (= PIECE, q.v.); morue; mouquette; musardine (old: an habituée of the Concerts-Musard); musequine (R.).

  Ningle; nymphe.

  Offre à tous (s’); omnibus; ordure (R.); ouvrière.

  Paillarde (VILLON, R.); paillasse; paillasse à troufion; paillasse de corps de garde; pailletée; pannanesse (R.); pantame; panturme; papillonne; particulière; pas grana’chose; pantonnière (R.); peau; peau de chien; péche à quinze sous (DUMAS fils); [femme de] péchié (R.); pélérine de Venus (R.); pélican; pellice (R.); persilleuse, pétasse; petite dame; pieuvre (BALZAC); pigéon voyageur; pinerie (= prickery, i.e. = harlotry); pierreuse; piqueuse de trains; planche à boudin; polissonne (BÉRANGER); polisseuse de tuyaux de pipe; polisseuse de mâts de cocagne en chambre; ponifle; Pont-Neuf; postiqueuse (R.); pompe funèbre; pontonnière; pont d’Avignon; portion; poufiasse; poule; poulette; poupée; poupoule; poupine; poupinette; prat; présentière; prêtresse de Venus (RABELAIS, LA FONTAINE); princesse (or princesse de l’asphalte); pucelle de Marolles (or de Belleville); punaise; putain (VILLON = whore: also pute; putanisme, puterie, or putage = lechery).

  Raccrocheuse; racoleuse; rafaitière (R.); ragasie (R.); rameneuse; redresseuse (R.); religieuse; rempardeuse; retapeuse; reveleuse (R.); ribaude (R.); ricalde (R.); rigobette (R.: also rigobète); rivette; robe; roufle; roti; rouche; roulette; rouleuse; rouloure; rousse-caigne (R.); roustisseuse (= buttock-and-file); rutière.

  Safrette (R.); salope; saucisse; sauterelle; scaldrine (R.); serraine; servante-maitresse; [fille du] siècle (R.); sirène; siroteuse; sœur; sommier de caserne; sougnant (R.); souillon; soupeuse; sourditte (R.); sucrée; suivante de Vénus (R.).

  Tapeuse de tal; taupe; terrière; terreuse; terrinière; tireuse de vinaigre (R.); tonton (GAVARNI, LA FONTAINE); torchon; torpille d’occasion; toupie (R.); tourterelle; touse (R.); traînée; traîneuse; travailleuse; tripière; trottière; truande; trumeau; trusseresse; trychine.

  Usagère (R.).

  Vache; vache à lait; vadrouille; veau; vendangeuse d’amour; vendeuse de tendresse; véroleuse; verticale (= uprighter); vesse (= bladder); vessie; vésuvienne; vestal; vézon; viagère (R.); viande; [femme de] vie (i.e., vit—R.); vielle garde; villotière (COTGRAVE); voirie; volaille (= pullet); voyagère (R.: also voyageuse).

  Wagon; wauve.

  Zona.

  c. 1889.  Bird o’ Freedom [quoted in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant].

  1896.  MARSHALL, Pomes, 48. His years were in number some threescore and three, And Flossie ye TARTE of his bosom was she.

  Adj. (B. E. and GROSE: now recognised).—‘TART DAME [sic], sharp, quick’ (B. E.); ‘TART, sour, sharp, quick, pert’ (GROSE).