melty

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English melt

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English melty

From melt + -y.

Adjective

melty (comparative meltier, superlative meltiest)

1. Having a high tendency to melt.
   • 2008, Linda Larsen, The $7 a Meal Slow Cooker Cookbook:

     This creamy, melty cheese dip is delicious with crisp fresh vegetables.

   • 2014 August 23, Deb Amlen, “Second Shift”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     I must say that the meltiest, most evocative entry in this theme set is BRA OF CHOCOLATE, which, of course, started out as a bar of chocolate until Mr. Berry and the made up “Victoria’s Sweetness catalog” got hold of it.

   • 2024 January 27, The New York Times Cooking, “Chips as Chicken and Wings as Dip”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     If you’ve ever eaten Buffalo chicken wings and thought, “These are so good, I just wish they were meltier and cheesier so I could scoop them up with tortilla chips,” here’s Ali’s Buffalo chicken dip.

2. In the state of being melted.
   • 1991 April 14, Barbara Gilford, “DANCE; Capturing the Beauty In Ballet of Goddesses”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     "Melt," Ms. Martinet directed Ms. Velko, as the young dancer assumed a deep arabesque. "This is really the meltiest of them all."

   • 2020, Jenna Barnard, Butternut Bakery:

     Let the cookies cool for about 20 minutes before eating. They’re best when they’re slightly warm and the chocolate chips are still melty. Enjoy!

Derived terms

• meltiness

Noun

melty (countable and uncountable, plural melties)

1. (Internet slang) meltdown
   • 2023 July 12, MKUltraMoney, Twitter‎^[4], archived from the original on 20 March 2026:

     From being considered one of the funniest users during early Twitter, to having a show that flopped ridiculously hard, to no longer being funny whatsoever, to having a melty about Twitter blue using a blocklist to block ALL blue subs

   • 2023 September 11, MotorolaCRO, “IS 3 Br needs to be 7.3/7.7 at least”, in War Thunder - official forum‎^[5], archived from the original on 24 January 2026:

     Dude literally having a melty over a tank that has 23s reload

   • 2025 February 7, bvtm_tnd, Twitter‎^[6], archived from the original on 24 January 2026:

     melty on main!

   • 2025 April 18, Silent-Abroad-, “Bro, those shadps4 moderators are a bit crazy, aren't they??”, in Reddit‎^[7], archived from the original on 24 January 2026:

     uh oh, melty!