Blend ofday +party.
darty (pluraldarties)
- (universityslang, Canada,US) Aparty held in thedaytime.
- Synonyms:dage,dayger
2019 March 17, Alex Scimecca, “Raise a Pint of Guinness on St. Patrick's Day With These Historical Photos”, inFortune[1], New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on6 December 2022:As Americans toast Saint Patrick on March 17 in parades anddarties (day parties), Ireland will celebrate the saint day in a much more holy fashion.
2022 June 22, Meredith Dietz, “How to Day Drink Without Overdoing It”, inLifehacker Australia[2], archived fromthe original on13 December 2022:I love drinking during the day. We've written before about the virtues of using jam to make any booze morning-appropriate, as well as how to make the perfect backyard drink. You never know when a chill outdoor hang might transition into a full-on "darty" (day + party).
2023 March 2, Lauren Medeiros, “The Belfort parking lot holds the wildest darty around”, inThe Western Gazette[3], archived fromthe original on27 March 2023:Pavel Beletski, videographer for thedarties, feels it's the social element that has brought about the popularity ofdarties.
2023 March 16, Eli Curwin, “Boston colleges warn students against 'BORGs' as St. Patrick's Day approaches”, inBoston.com[4], archived fromthe original on4 April 2023:As thousands of students flock todarties, parties, and parades this St. Patrick's Day, colleges in Boston are warning their students to be wary of 'BORGs.'
darty (third-person singular simple presentdarties,present participledartying,simple past and past participledartied)
- (universityslang, Canada,US) Toparticipate in a darty.
2017 April 25, Sophie G. Garrett, “Darty Season: Pros and Cons”, inThe Harvard Crimson[5], Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Crimson,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on10 April 2023:It's very hard to rally once the alcohol and adrenaline wears off, so the choice todarty is the choice tonot party that night.
2019 April 29, Britton O'Daly, “Hundreds to boycott DKE Tang”, inYale Daily News[6],→OCLC, archived fromthe original on25 June 2022:"We all know post-Fling Sunday is a day todarty! And in the wake of campus conversations about supporting survivors and denouncing sexual misconduct, partying is political," reads the event's description.
2022 August 15, Christine Ji, “Broken Ankles and Barriers to Accessibility: Reflections from a Skater-Turned-Scooter Girl”, inThe Georgetown Voice[7],→OCLC, archived fromthe original on7 October 2022:I heard an ominous snap as I fell. Laying on the jagged cobblestones, all I could do was take shaky breaths as I reeled from the white-hot pain. The frat brosdartying a stone's throw away paid no attention to my crumpled figure.
Fromdart +-y.
darty (comparativedartierormoredarty,superlativedartiestormostdarty)
- Tending todart; tending to makequick andsudden moves, especially to the side.
1887 September, Alex H. Japp, “Up in the Morning Early”, inGentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume263, number1881, page296:Then the tits—particularly the blue tits—begin to flash like light from tree to tree, with their tweenk, tweenk, tweenk; one of the prettiest but most pugnacious of birds; and if you are near water, the wanton wagtails are never long out of it, with their pert and sidelong glance anddarty walk, and quaint call seldom used; and they shake and preen and trim themselves, as it were, into harmony with their surroundings, like fashionable ladies at a tea party.
2007, Marian Keyes,Anybody Out There:'It's a different kind of pain now,' I'd say. 'Remember when I said it was a kind of hummy ache? Well, it's changed. Moredarty.'
2013,Inherit the Dead:His eyes were red but a lot lessdarty.
2019, Alex Poppe,Moxie:Her darty eyes land on me.
2020, Hannah M. Sandoval,Arcamira:The little dog's not half as interesting as you, but thosedarty eyes of his are always looking out for trouble.
2020, Edwin Jones,Ted Made Me Write This, page99:But he was orange, small dog size, very fast anddarty, big bushy tail and white underside.
2022, Jerry Izenberg,"No Medals for Trying": Eagles @ Giants:See—he's kind of adarty runner who will try and make you miss.
- Of acar: having a sharp turning radius and tightsteering that is responsive to slight turns of thewheel.
2017 May 17, Andrew English, “Old-time machine: Can this 1904 Vauxhall handle Britain in the 21st Century?”, inThe Daily Telegraph[8], London:Telegraph Media Group,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on19 August 2022:Tiller steering is not for the faint-hearted. It isdarty, like a ferret on a lead. Left turns involve pulling the short lever awkwardly into your tummy, and then there's the thought that any kind of impact could involve the driver being skewered like a cocktail sausage.
2006 August 2, Dan Neil, “A real roadster in its blood”, inLos Angeles Times[9], Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on10 May 2021:The steering has good self-centering behavior at high speed but the Sky never loses that alert, slightlydarty feel of a roadster.
2015, Larry Webster,Iconic Cars 5-Book Bundle:“The white M3 is thedartiest of the three; it feels like it's the most on edge and I think for a really good drive it's the most fun,” says Bornhop.
darty (comparativedartier,superlativedartiest)
- Pronunciation spelling ofdirty.
1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter II, inThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC,page22:[…] I'd want you for to know better, you blackguard, than to call my new obercoat adarty one!
1875, Anne Jane Cupples,Young Bright-eye; or, Charlie Harvey’s First Voyage, page173:Ver fine goods for oledarty blankets, boot for shoe, black dog for white monkey.
1915 July,J. W. F., “Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen: Vindicated by a Doctor”, in Bertram Waldrom Matz, editor,The Dickensian, volume11, number 7, page188:"Thedartier the cosier" was no exploded maxim then; indeed before the advent of Listerism, corporal, domestic, or communal cleanliness did not really exist; and in those hydrophobic times the direst punishment you could mete out to an enemy was to put him under the pump, or to duck him in a horse-trough.
2000, Rufus Juskus,Blueprint, page61:Yeah, well, you're adarty old fart.
2020, M. Brooke McCullough, J. E. Boydston,Canarytown City of Grief:Aye, matey, it's adarty job, but me throat got plenty parched.
darty (passive adjectival)
- masculinesingularpassiveadjectivalparticiple ofdrzeć
Declension ofdarty (hard)
darty
- nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofdart
- darty in Polish dictionaries at PWN
