Definizione monolingua

salty

salty (comparative saltier, superlative saltiest)

1. Tasting of salt.
2. Containing salt.
3. (figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
4. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
5. (US slang) Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.

   • 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.

   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 61:

     I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.

   • 1969. Iceberg Slim. Pimp: The Story of My Life. Holloway House Publishing. page 162
6. (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”).

Definizione dizionario salty

salato

acerbo

amaro

aspro

piccante

salino

salso

Altri significati:

salty (taste)

of language: coarse, provocative

tasting of salt

Tasting of salt.

containing salt

(US slang) Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.

(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”).

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).