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Definition: Tartly |
TartlyAdverb1. In a tart manner; "`Never mind your immortal soul,' she said tartly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tartly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: Tartly |
| English words defined with "tartly": Acidly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tartly": lexicographer. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took, And catalogued each garment in a book. Now, from her leafy covert when she cries: "Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise And scan the list, and say without compassion: "Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion." Sigismund Smith |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tartly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tartly" is used about 124 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 124 | 28,785 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tartly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | язвително, остро (pointedly, sharply). (various references) | |
Chinese | 酸地 (sourly). (various references) | |
German | sauer (acetous, acid, acidic, acidly, acis, acrid, cross, hard, mad, moped, moping, off, pickled, sharp, shirty, sickly, sore, sour, soured, sourly, sulkily, sulky, tart, uptight), herb (abrasive, acerbic, acetous, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, aspero, austere, bitter, cruel, dour, dry, harsh, harshly, lurid, rough, rude, severe, sharp, sour, tangy, tart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | maróan (stingily), kesernyésen, fanyarul (acidly, sourly), csípősen (pointedly, shrewdly, snappily, stingily). (various references) | |
Korean | 랄하게 (Acrimoniously, trenchantly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | artlytay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Tartly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: artley, Jartley, rattly, tactly, tartily, tartl, tarty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tartly" (pronounced 'Tart"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly, Cavalierly, Cavally, Chastely, Cheaply, Chely, Chiefly, Choicely, Christly, Churchly, Circumspectly, Clearly, Closely, Coarsely, Coldly, Coly, Compactly, Completely, Comptly, Concisely, Concretely, Condignly, Confestly, Confusely, Conjointly, Conjunctly, Contently, Correctly, Corruptly, Costly, Coxcombly, Coyly, Crisply, Crossly, Crudely, Curtly, Darkly, Dearly, Debonairly, Deeply, Defly, Deftly, Dejectly, Demissly, Demurely, Densely, Dernly, Devoutly, Diffusely, Dilly, Dimly, Directly, Direly, Discretely, Disjointly, Disruly, Dissertly, Distinctly, Divinely, Doily, Dooly, Doyly, Dreadly, Drily, Drumly, Dryly, Dully, Duly, Dumbly, Eighthly, Entirely, Erectly, Exactly, Expertly, Expressly, Extremely, Faintly, Fairly, Falsely, Fastly, Fatly, Featly, Ferly, Fiendly, fifthly, filly, finely, firmly, firstly, fitly, flatly, fleetly, Flockly, FOLLY, fondly, Fonly, forlornly, foully, fourthly, Foxly, frailly, frankly, freely, freshly, fully, gaily, gainly, gamely, Gauntly, gayly, gelly, genteelly, Gladly, Glibly, Globosely, Glossly, Glumly, Gradely, grandly, gravely, greatly, greenly, Grilly, grisly, grossly, grotesquely, Groundly, Grumbly, Haily, haply, hardly, harshly, Heathenishly, highly, hoarsely, holy, Horsly, hotly, Hurly, immaturely, immensely, Importunely, Impurely, Incisely, incompletely, incorrectly, Incorruptly, Indignly, indirectly, indistinctly, ineptly, Inertly, inexactly, Infirmly, Injelly, inopportunely, insanely, insecurely, insincerely, intensely, intently, inversely, jointly, justly, keenly, Lagly, Laidly, lamely, Lancely, Lankly, largely, lastly, lately, laxly, Leanly, Lifely, lightly, Lithely, lonely, Longly, loosely, loudly, madly, Malignly, maturely, meekly, Meetly, merely, Metely, mildly, Misly, Mixtly, Moly, Monkly, morosely, mostly, Mutely, Namely, Naughtly, Nearly, Neatly, Needsly, Newly, Nicely, Nighly, Ninthly, Obliquely, Obscurely, Obtusely, Obversely, Occultly, Oddly, Onely, Ornately, Overcostly, Overhighly, Overstraitly, Overthwartly, Palely, Partly, Patly, Percely, Perplexly, Pertly, Perversely, Piecely, Pily, Plainly, Platly, Plumply, Politely, Polly, Pomely, Portly, Prepensely, Pressly, Prevalently, Prickly, Priestly, Primely, Primly, Profanely, Profoundly, Profusely, Prolixly, Promptly, Pronely, Proudly, Purely, Quaintly, Queenly, Queerly, Quickly, Quitly, Rankly, rarely, rashly, Rawly, Rearly, Reclusely, redly, Reformly, Remissly, reversely, richly, rightly, Rily, Rimosely, ripely, robustly, roughly, roundly, sadly, safely, sagely, saintly, Saltly, Saufly, Savely, Scantly, Scasely, Scathly, Scragly, securely, Sely, semimonthly, semiweekly, serenely, Sexly, Shackly, shapely, sharply, Sheenly, Sheerly, shortly, shyly, sightly, silly, sincerely, sixthly, slackly, sleekly, Sleightly, slightly, Slily, slimly, slowly, slyly, Smally, smartly, Smickly, smoothly, smugly, snugly, softly, solely, Soonly, Soothly, sorely, soundly, sourly, Southly, sparely, sparsely, sprightly, Spruntly, squarely, Squirely, Stagely, staidly, Stalely, stanchly, Starchly, starkly, Statuesquely, Stayedly, steeply, sternly, stiffly, stoutly, Straitly, strangely, strictly, strongly, sublimely, Submissly, Subobscurely, supremely, surely, surly, Suspensely. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rattly. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-r-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: lyart, lytta, ratty, tarty. | |
-2 letters: arty, aryl, tart, tray. | |
-3 letters: alt, art, att, lar, lat, lay, rat, ray, rya, tar, tat, try, yar. | |
-4 letters: al, ar, at, ay, la, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-r-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: clattery, flattery, latterly, straitly, thwartly, tiltyard, titulary, tutelary. | |
+3 letters: altimetry, brutality, extrality, mortality, saltatory, ternately, tetralogy, throatily, tiltyards, titularly, tractably. | |
+4 letters: abstractly, centrality, flyswatter, frontality, lathyritic, literality, literately, methylator, multiparty, neutrality, partiality, prototypal, rattlingly, relativity, rotatively, salutatory, slatternly, stalwartly, straightly, teratology, texturally, tolerantly, triviality, tumultuary, virtuality. | |
+5 letters: advertently, alternately, anticruelty, artiodactyl, bipartitely, criticality, crystallite, dilatometry, ethereality, externality, flyswatters, fortunately, gratulatory, gustatorily, hairstylist, hortatively, immortality, importantly, integrality, internality, intractably, intricately, iteratively, itinerantly, materiality, methylators, partibility, partitively, portability, prattlingly, pterodactyl, rationality, regrettably, reluctantly, rentability, repentantly, resultantly, retaliatory, spiritualty, startlingly, statutorily, stimulatory, stipulatory, temperately, temporality, tetraploidy, tranquility, transiently, translatory, trenchantly, triaxiality, unutterably, ventilatory, versatility, verticality. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 72 74 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .-. - .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a r t l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0072 0074 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546784867891 |
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