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salt·y

(sôl′tē)

adj. salt·i·er, salt·i·est

1. Of, containing, or seasoned with salt.

2. Suggestive of the sea or sailing life.

3. Witty; pungent; earthy: salty humor.

salt′i·ly adv.

salt′i·ness n.

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salty

(ˈsɔːltɪ)

adj, saltier or saltiest

1. of, tasting of, or containing salt

2. (esp of humour) sharp; piquant

3. (Nautical Terms) relating to life at sea

ˈsaltily adv

ˈsaltiness n

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salt•y

(ˈsɔl ti)

adj. salt•i•er, salt•i•est.

1. tasting of or containing salt; saline.

2. piquant; sharp; witty.

3. racy or coarse: salty humor.

4. of the sea or sailing.

[1400–50]

salt′i•ly, adv.

salt′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	salty - engagingly stimulating or provocative; "a piquant wit"; "salty language" piquant stimulating - rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion"
	2.	salty - containing or filled with salt; "salt water" tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel" fresh, sweet - not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water"
	3.	salty - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel"

salty

adjective salt, salted, saline, brackish, briny, over-salted, brak (S. African) organisms adapted to survive in very salty water

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salty

adjective

Bordering on indelicacy or impropriety:

blue, earthy, off-color, provocative, racy, risqué, scabrous, spicy, suggestive.

Translations

مالِحمـُمَلِّح

slaný

salt

salzig

αλμυρός

salado salobre

suolainenrasvainen

salé saumâtre

नमकीन

slan

asin

saltur

salato

塩気のある

짠

солёный бывалый соленый

slan

salt

ซึ่งมีรสเค็ม

tuzlu

mặn

咸的多盐的

salty

[ˈsɔːltɪ] ADJ (saltier (compar) (saltiest (superl))) [taste] → salado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

salty

[ˈsɔːlti] adj → salé(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

salty

adj (+er)

→ salzig; salty water → Salzwasser nt

(dated fig) language → gesalzen; story → scharf, gesalzen

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salty

[ˈsɔːltɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (taste) → salato/a (fig) (humour, remark) → piccante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

salt

(soːlt) noun

1. (also common salt) sodium chloride, a white substance frequently used for seasoning. The soup needs more salt.

2. any other substance formed, like common salt, from a metal and an acid.

3. a sailor, especially an experienced one. an old salt.

adjective

containing, tasting of, preserved in salt. salt water; salt pork.

verb

to put salt on or in. Have you salted the potatoes?

ˈsalted adjective

(negative unsalted) containing or preserved with salt. salted butter; salted beef.

ˈsaltness noun

ˈsalty adjective

containing or tasting of salt. Tears are salty water.

ˈsaltiness noun

bath salts

a usually perfumed mixture of certain salts added to bath water.

the salt of the earth

a very good or worthy person. People like her are the salt of the earth.

take (something) with a grain/pinch of salt

to receive (a statement, news etc) with a slight feeling of disbelief. I took his story with a pinch of salt.

salty

→ مـُمَلِّح slaný salt salzig αλμυρός salado suolainen salé slan salato 塩気のある 짠 zout salt słony salgado соленый salt ซึ่งมีรสเค็ม tuzlu mặn 多盐的

salty

a. salado-a, salobre, salino-a.

The food is too salty → Jídlo je přesolené → Maden er for salt → Das Essen ist zu salzig → Ruoka on liian suolaista → Les plats sont trop salés → Jelo je preslano → Il cibo è troppo salato → 음식이 너무 짜요 → Het eten is te zout → Maten er for salt → To jedzenie jest przesolone → A comida está salgada demais → Еда пересолена → Maten är för salt → Yemek çok tuzlu → Thức ăn mặn quá → 菜太咸

salty

adj salado

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THE RIVERS joined together to complain to the Sea, saying, "Why is it that when we flow into your tides so potable and sweet, you work in us such a change, and make us salty and unfit to drink?" The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, "Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny."

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Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odours of that cave.

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And Captain Van Horn, who ruled the Arangi in bare legs, a loin cloth, and a sixpenny under-shirt, and ran cannibal blacks back and forth in the blackbird trade with an automatic strapped to his body waking and sleeping and with his head forfeit in scores of salt- water villages and bush strongholds, and who was esteemed the toughest skipper in the Solomons where only men who are tough may continue to live and esteem toughness, blinked with sudden moisture in his eyes, and could not see for the moment the puppy that quivered all its body of love in his arms and kissed away the salty softness of his eyes.

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Van Weyden, for the present at any rate, earns his salty grub by assisting me.

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