Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, containing, or seasoned with salt.
- adj. Suggestive of the sea or sailing life.
- adj. Witty; pungent; earthy: salty humor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Somewhat salt; saltish.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tasting of salt.
- adj. Containing salt.
- adj. figuratively Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
- adj. figuratively Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
- adj. US slang Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
- adj. linguistics Pertaining to 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").
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Somewhat salt; saltish.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. containing or filled with salt
- adj. engagingly stimulating or provocative
- adj. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
Etymologies
- From salt + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Cornell Chicken is often served with Syracuse Salt Potatoes, small white local potatoes boiled in salty water.”
The Huffington Post: Meathead Goldwyn: Crispy Cornell Chicken: An Upstate New York Classic
“Otherwise will have to resort to some sort of Elly May Clampett outfit which will confuse everyone, none more so than me. i.e. something with expandable midriff to factor in salty oily nibbly things at Lock n Load.”
“I got for the ham and cheese buns, the dragon roll (glutinous rice dumpling with red bean paste) and the pork dumping (its in salty, oily glutinous rice package).”
“Well, if the meat is fresh, I'd suggest putting it to soak in salty water in the fridge for a day or two.”
"A friend gave me some pheasant breasts and pieces of chucker (I think?)
“They will keep for quite a while in salty water if it's kept cold and covered.”
"A friend gave me some pheasant breasts and pieces of chucker (I think?)
“Those I-10 snake fritters are too gamey and are likely too salty from the tears shed on them from passing PETA fanatics.”
“Blood, pouring into me, through me, enveloping me in salty copper.”
“They just came out with peanut butter cookies which would be so delish with a peanut butter cream cheese frosting rolled in salty chopped peanuts!”
“To take your argument to its logical conclusion, I would need to eradicate the word feta from every one of my recipes and call it "salty white cheese masquerading as feta.”
Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning
“It starts out rich and salty from the smoked salmon on the outside, and the tobiko that the sushi was rolled in pop in your mouth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘salty’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
related:
http://www....swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong, swisher and 323 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
unctuous, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, piquant, savory, tangy, luscious, delectable, brackish and 66 more...
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Salt
Words related to salt and saltiness.
adarce, brinish, brinishness, briny, saline, salinity, salsuginose, salsuginous, saltish, saltishly, saltishness, salty and 74 more...
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Unite 2
unspeakable, unavoidable, snobbish, sluggish, sizeable, rocky, reputable, numerous, moody, misty, knowledgeable, justifiable and 18 more...
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Food words that sound sexy
I am taking my lead from the 100 mile diet bloggers in Vancouver, whose guidelines for eating locally conclude with the observation that most things said about food are equally applicable to sex: t...
unctuous, voluptuous, sensuous, salty, lick, comforting, yummy, goddess, scrape, peeled, conch, rise and 12 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
sillygoose's Words
nefarious, waffle, dilettante, love, obstreperous, suggestible, fodder, plucky, trajectory, eclectic, juggernaut, demure and 115 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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fragile/lovely words
incandescent, scintillating, sublime, stellar, fragile, bones, illuminate, luscious, celestial, crepuscular, penumbra, wanderlust and 111 more...
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Annsley's list
churlish, bibulous, salt, salty, conjugal, fabulist, maw, primordial, chimera, emetic, surly, excrescence and 228 more...
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hilton head
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acphenderson's list
a fantastic hodgepodge of discovered gems.
bedizen, incendiary, cacaphony, tactiturn, disingenious, serrated, truncated, bete noire, irrefutable, mirable dictu, peripatetic, salty
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love
darling, amorous, devotion, rapture, infatuation, cherish, inamorata, inamorato, deify, cosset, tryst, liaison and 45 more...
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Dad-Speak
coupla two-three, shar, ar, ham-and-egger, mom-and-pop, salty, purty, bippy, a buck three-eighty, east jebip, three-toed tree toad, deviated septum and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for salty.
chained_bear Dad-speak for "expensive." Oct 12, 2007