2006-09-06 18:03:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It's rhyming slang for sweetheart.
The standard sense of ‘tart’ is ‘a promiscuous woman, a prostitute’. OED sees this as a figurative use of ‘tart’. In Australia, from the 1890s to the 1930s (and sparingly until the 1970s), it was used positively in the sense ‘girlfriend, sweetheart’. This may reflect the continuation of an earlier sense, in which the figurative use of ‘tart’ was positive, or it is perhaps a new coinage, based on ‘jam tart’, rhyming slang for ‘sweetheart’.
2006-09-06 22:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Scotland, the "Jam Tarts" are the "Hearts" football team. Nobody would even think of the meanings that other answerers have given.
2006-09-07 08:27:55 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jam tart is cockney rhyming slang for heart, fart, and sweetheart
2006-09-06 18:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by Bethany 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Noo Rhyming is not slang...just cus rappers use it. Think about it people were rhyming before rap..poems for the 19th century rymber and they were not using slang.
2006-09-06 18:10:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never heard that one B4 who are you listening to!!!
2006-09-06 18:08:50 · answer #5 · answered by It Co$t To Be Around The Bo$$ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋