salty
Meaning
- Tasting of salt.
- Containing salt.
- Coarse; provocative; earthy.
- Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
- (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.
- Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).
Synonyms
bad tasting
trenchant
salt solution
slightly salt
become sweet
salsamentarious
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɒl.ti/
Etymology
PIE word *séh₂ls From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian soaltig (“salty”), West Frisian sâltich (“salty”), Dutch zoutig (“salty”), German Low German soltig (“salty”), German salzig (“salty”). (coarse; irritated, annoyed): Referencing the sharp, 'spicy' flavor of salt. (indignant): Perhaps implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears, or derived from the preceding.
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