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salty
[ sawl-tee ]
adjective
- racy or coarse:
salty humor.
- of the sea, sailing, or life at sea:
salty tales of adventure on the high seas.
- Slang. (especially of a sailor) toughened by experience:
proud and salty Marines.
- Slang. angry, upset, or hostile, especially due to embarrassment or failure:
He gets all salty whenever he loses.
salty
/ ˈsɔːltɪ /
adjective
- of, tasting of, or containing salt
- (esp of humour) sharp; piquant
- relating to life at sea
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Derived Forms
- ˈsaltily, adverb
- ˈsaltiness, noun
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Other Words From
- salti·ly adverb
- salti·ness noun
- over·salty adjective
- un·salty adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
But what about the screams, the salty puddles, and big empty packages of frozen fish lying on the ground outside the fence?
The wind blew dry, salty air from the former seabed far to the south and east.
By the late 1990s the sea level dropped by 16 meters, leaving fishing boats and ships resting on the sandy and salty bottom.
The buttery, nutty, and sweet and salty all work together to form a balance of flavors.
The chicken, fried in impeccably fresh peanut oil, is enveloped in a salty skin that peels away in bacon-rich strips.
We cross over the bridges that span salty channels, oozy and redolent of ocean and sea-weed during the hours of ebb.
In mine and field and factory they had tasted the salty flavor of real things, and they built a school that has this flavor.
And how indispensable are the clear mountain streams to the sea, in pouring fresh water into its salty heart.
All these animals came to it in great numbers, and drank the waters, and ate great wads of the salty mud.
Very salty meats, or those much dried in smoking should be soaked overnight in cold water before boiling.
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