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Answer for the clue "Tart-tongued ", 5 letters:
catty

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The catty or kati ( in Singaporean English ), symbol 斤 , is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia , notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets , street markets , and shops. Related units include the ...

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n. any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) [syn: cattie ] [also: cattiest , cattier ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Joyce made a catty comment about Sonia's clothes. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Deana Davenport, of course, and her catty comment had been somewhat inaccurate. ▪ So jealous, so catty , so, well, murderous, when scorned? ...

Usage examples of catty.

Audrey for her stoicism in the face of disaster and her finely tuned ballet technique, some of the cattier members of the class must have made snide remarks about her painfully bony look.

To make things worse, the weight of the sheng had been reduced with the times from twelve catties to five catties, and at the same time the relation of cash to silver had fallen from 1640 to 1250 cash the tael.

We had the misfortune of being stuck in a class packed with the cattiest little girls in all of New York City.

It is the story of great men--Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others--and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires.

She watched Danny cross the street catty corner and lope to her house.

Betty Blum begins to take blame and croon apologies in the familiar catty pussyfooting of one browbeaten señora coming to the defense of another.