a. nonce-wd. [f. TARTAR sb.2 + -LY1.] Tartar-like; rough and fierce.
1821. Byron, John Keats, i. Who kill’d John Keats? ‘I,’ says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly, ‘’Twas one of my feats.’
1858. O. W. Holmes, Autocr. Breakf.-t., iv. 103. The ‘Quarterly,’ ‘so savage and tartarly,’ came down upon him [Sydney Smith] in the most contemptuous style.
1894. A. Birrell, Ess., v. 49. It was enough to sting Scott to fury, and make him fall upon the old man in a manner somewhat too savage and tartarly.
