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salty

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English

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Etymology

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PIE word
*séh₂ls

FromMiddle Englishsalti, equivalent tosalt +‎-y.

CompareSaterland Frisiansoaltig(“salty”),West Frisiansâltich(“salty”),Dutchzoutig(“salty”),German Low Germansoltig(“salty”),Germansalzig(“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.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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salty (comparativesaltier,superlativesaltiest)

  1. Tasting ofsalt.
  2. Containingsalt.
    • 1957,Americas (English Ed.):
      At Zipaquirá, thesalty ore is taken from the mine in chunks, then thrown into large tanks of water, where the salt is dissolved out. The resulting brine is drawn off into pipelines, containers, or tank trucks and sold[…]
    • 2008, Günter Grass, translated by Michael Henry Heim,Peeling the Onion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,→ISBN, page223:
      My job was to couple the dumpers, full or empty, then uncouple them at the main shaft, and to open and close the weather door on the trip to the roof galleries, where thesalty ore was dynamited and broken down.
  3. (figuratively, of language)Coarse;provocative;earthy.
    • 1962, William Henry Davenport,The Good Physician: A Treasury of Medicine:
      In the following piece she has some characteristicallysalty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet.
    • 2010, R. Tripp Evans,Grant Wood: A Life, Knopf,→ISBN, page201:
      (In characteristicallysalty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.)
    • 2021 June 24, Justin Driver, “A Cheerleader Lands an F on Snapchat, but a B+ in Court”, inThe New York Times‎[1],→ISSN:
      The court might have been tempted to construe the First Amendment as too momentous — too consequential — to vindicate a disappointed teenager’ssalty outburst after being cut from the varsity cheer squad.
    • 2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN:
      Sometimes hosts are a littlesaltier when the cameras aren’t rolling, but I don’t recall ever hearing any daylight between the views they express on-air and off.
  4. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services;salty dog (from salt of the sea).
    • 2004,David Mitchell,Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton,→ISBN:
      There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catchessalty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now.
    • 2015 March 12, Bill Mann, “The film that makes me cry: Local Hero”, inThe Guardian‎[3]:
      Plus bits of business involving asalty Russian seafarer and overflying warplanes.
  5. (slang)Irritated,annoyed,angry,bitter,bitchy.
    • 1946,Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow,Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, inReally the Blues, New York, N.Y.:Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago),page61:
      Ray and Fuzzy weresalty 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, page162:
      I want to beg your pardon for making yousalty that night.
    • 2004, J. Ransom,Colla'd Greens Fuh-ya Soul,→ISBN, page39:
      Misery can make you blame everybody else for yoursalty attitude. You think people just don't get where you're coming from. How can so many people be so stupid, you think. Well, your misery is very likely self-inflicted.
    • 2021, SB Akshobhya,The Panipuri Crimes, Sristhi Publishers & Distributors,→ISBN:
      "I regret beingsalty and bitchy towards you most of the time. Yesterday's offence is unforgivable, but can you forgive me for the day-to-day bickering in the past?” “Would you even care? Especially if you had not been caught outright[…]"
  6. (linguistics) Pertaining to theSardinian language and those dialects ofCatalan, spoken in theBalearic Islands and along the coast ofCatalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latinipse(“self”) instead of the Latinille(“that”).

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Translations

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tasting of salt
containing salt
of language: coarse, provocative
experienced
pertaining to article usage in Catalan dialects
bitter
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See also

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Basic tastes in English(layout ·text)
sweetsoursaltybitterspicysavory

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