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Definition of Tartish
1. a. Somewhat tart.
Definition of Tartish
1. Adjective. Mildly or slightly tart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tartish
1. somewhat tart [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tartish
Literary usage of Tartish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"tartish. agrimensor, surveyor, land surveyor, ... sourish, tartish. —it, to
sharpen, to grow sour, to become pricked, ..."
2. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"VERDELET, TE, adj. somewhat acid, tartish. Fin verdelet, tartish wine. (Fig.)
Cet homme est encore verdelet, that man is still vigorous. ..."
3. New Homœopathic Pharmacopæia & Posology: Or the Mode of Preparing by Charles Julius Hempel, Joseph Benedict Buchner, Carl Ernst Gruner, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr (1850)
"... and somewhat tartish to the^ taste; it grows slowly, lives for ages, and
sometimes attains a size of 6 feet in diameter; its wood is very heavy, hard, ..."
4. New Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia and Posology by G.H. Jahr (1842)
"It is an evergreen, leaves opposed, very rarely alternate, green above, shining
and silvery beneath, bitter, aromatic, and somewhat tartish to the taste; ..."
5. The Western Antiquary by William Henry Kearley Wright (1886)
"defines it as "a small black and tartish plum growing wild in some parts of the
country, not the sloe." A correspondent in Notes 4° Queries (1st Series, ..."
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