What does salty mean?

Definitions for salty
ˈsɔl tisalty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. piquant, saltyadjective

    engagingly stimulating or provocative

    "a piquant wit"; "salty language"

  2. saltyadjective

    containing or filled with salt

    "salt water"

  3. saltyadjective

    one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

GCIDE

  1. Saltyadjective

    Interesting and witty; piquant; -- of discourse.

  2. Saltyadjective

    Racy; sexually suggestive; -- of discourse.

Wiktionary

  1. saltyadjective

    Tasting of salt.

  2. saltyadjective

    Containing salt.

  3. saltyadjective

    Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.

  4. saltyadjective

    Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

  5. saltyadjective

    Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.

  6. saltyadjective

    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 instead of the Latin .

ChatGPT

  1. salty

    Salty generally refers to the taste that is one of the basic senses and is often associated with food that contains high levels of salt. It is also used metaphorically in slang to describe a person who is agitated, upset, or bitter, usually due to insult or injury to their pride.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Saltyadjective

    somewhat salt; saltish

Wikidata

  1. Salty

    Salty is the second album by The Mutton Birds. "Anchor Me" reached the top 10 in the New Zealand singles chart.

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Anagrams for salty »

  1. slaty

  2. lasty

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of salty in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of salty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of salty in a Sentence

  1. Iram Lewis:

    After Hurricane Dorian, the water became extremely salty. Currently, 65 % of households are compromised, by March, that number should be down significantly and completely gone by the end of the summer.

  2. Katherine Zeratsky:

    It gives that same salty taste without being buried in the food.

  3. Joe Cassinelli:

    We’re salty New England, you have to keep fighting.

  4. Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (regarding popcorn):

    If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

  5. John Zhu:

    Water is just like wine, the sources and minerals determine the taste, if the water has a lot of calcium, it tastes sweet and chalky. If it's rich in magnesium, it tastes metallic. If it contains sodium, it tastes salty.

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