Definition of SALTY

salty

Adjective Satellite

  • engagingly stimulating or provocative
    • "salty language"
  • one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

Adjective

  • Having the taste of or containing salt.
  • containing or filled with salt

Adj

  • Tasting of salt.
  • Containing salt.
  • Coarse; provocative; earthy.
  • Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
  • Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.
  • Pertaining to the Sardinian language and 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”).

Examples

  • His salty commentary often accompanied his aggressive plays in Scrabble.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt + -y.
Compare Saterland Frisian soaltig (“salty”), West Frisian sâltich (“salty”), Dutch zoutig (“salty”), German Low German soltig (“salty”), German salzig (“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.

Synonyms

piquant, haline, saline, salt, salty

Scrabble Score: 8

salty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
salty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
salty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

salty: valid Words With Friends Word