tartar

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• Tartar

  ·noun ·see <<Tartarus>>. II. Tartar ·noun A person of a keen, irritable temper. III. Tartar ·adj O...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• tartar

  To catch a Tartar; to attack one of superior strength or abilities. This saying originated from a st...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to catch a tartar

  To attack one of superior strength or abilities. This saying originated from the story of an Irish s...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cream of tartar tree

  n. i.q. baobab (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris