salty
English
Etymology
From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt + -y.
Compare Saterland Frisian soaltich (“salty”), West Frisian sâltich (“salty”), Dutch zoutig (“salty”), German Low German soltig (“salty”), German salzig (“salty”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒlti
Adjective
salty (comparative saltier, superlative saltiest)
- Tasting of salt.
- 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":
- Containing salt.
- (figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
- (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas:
- There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches salty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now.
- (US slang, dated) Irritated, annoyed (from the sharp, spicy flavor of salt).
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 61:
- Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers.
- 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing, page 162:
- I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 61:
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Indignant or offended due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat (implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears); said of interlocutors expressing indignation, or merely disagreement.
- (linguistics) 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”).
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- (experienced sailor): salty dog
Translations
tasting of salt
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containing salt
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of language: coarse, provocative
experienced
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pertaining to article usage in Catalan dialects
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