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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
salty
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
salty
▪ He was conscious of the salty taste of his own blood.
sweet/spicy/bitter/salty etc
▪ The flavor was like peaches, but not as sweet.
taste sweet/bitter/sour/salty
▪ He handed me some black stuff which tasted bitter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
▪ The main drawback to many of these products is that they tend to be too salty, especially for reductions.
■ NOUN
taste
▪ Then he tasted the richer salty taste of blood, where the cut on her mouth had opened up.
▪ He was conscious of the rush of warm fluid down on to his lips, and the salty taste of his own blood.
▪ A fairly attractive loaf; has a good, nutty, cooked aroma and slightly salty taste.
▪ The pole was impregnated with a preservative that had a salty taste.
▪ Cooked aroma with a slightly salty taste.
water
▪ An array of long thin fingers of salty water descends, interspersed with a similar array of rising fresh water.
▪ It must then be recharged by soaking in salty water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She's a surprisingly salty lady.
▪ The french fries were too salty for me.
▪ The soup is a little too salty.
▪ This wine would be excellent with a salty dish such as ham.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brine shrimp thrive naturally, it is reported, in water so salty that few other forms of life exist there.
▪ Commercial sauerkraut is very salty so there is no additional salt in the recipe.
▪ Did you have a salty meal and therefore drink more?
▪ He cut two thick slices of bread and spread yellow, salty butter over each one.
▪ However, don't feed your feathered friends very dry bread, desiccated coconut or salty food.
▪ Infants show pleasure as sweetness is increased and displeasure with slightly salty, acidic, or bitter liquids.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salty

Salty \Salt"y\, a. Somewhat salt; saltish.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
salty

mid-15c., "tasting of salt, impregnated with salt," from salt (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "racy" is from 1866, from salt in the sense of "that which gives life or pungency" (1570s, originally of words or wit). Meaning "racy, sexy" is from 1866. U.S. slang sense of "angry, irritated" is first attested 1938 (probably from similar use with regard to sailors, "tough, aggressive," attested by 1920), especially in phrase jump salty "to unexpectedly become enraged." Related: Saltily.

Wiktionary
salty

a. 1 Tasting of salt. 2 Containing salt. 3 (context figuratively English) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language. 4 (context figuratively English) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea). 5 (context US slang English) irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt. 6 (context linguistics English) 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 (term lang=la ipse self) instead of the Latin (term lang=la ille that).

WordNet
salty
  1. adj. engagingly stimulating or provocative; "a piquant wit"; "salty language" [syn: piquant]

  2. containing salt; "a saline solution"; "salty tears" [syn: saline]

  3. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water [syn: salt]

  4. [also: saltiest, saltier]

Wikipedia
Salty

Salty may refer to the following:

  • Salt
  • Salty (album), by The Mutton Birds
Fictional characters
  • Salty the Seal, a character in Disney's Pluto cartoons
  • Salty, a diesel engine in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, see Railway engines (Thomas and Friends)
  • Salty the Parrot, first mate in Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt
  • Salty, a character of the group Captain Bogg and Salty
People
  • Salty Parker (1912–1992), baseball player and coach
  • Salty du Rand (b. 1926) South African rugby player
  • Salty Saltwell, baseball manager
  • Jarrod Saltalamacchia (b. 1985), baseball player
Salty (album)

Salty is the second album by New Zealand rock band The Mutton Birds, released in 1993. Four songs—"The Heater," "Anchor Me," "In My Room" and "Ngaire"—reached the top 20 in the New Zealand singles chart; "The Heater" peaked at No.1.

"Don't Fight it, Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us" was originally recorded by an earlier band of McGlashan's, Blam Blam Blam. "The Heater" is used as a plot device in the Christopher Brookmyre novel Be My Enemy; two central characters bond over it, and it is used as a contrast against the manufactured pop music made by a minor villain.

Usage examples of "salty".

Its salty smell wafted through the room like a ghost of the ocean, never quite replacing the smell of brewski and of the room itself.

The dark marmite spread was very salty, catching him by surprise, and he pulled a face.

Like miso, shoyu is made by combining cooked soybeans, a grain, and a mold culture in a salty brine for 12 to 18 months.

Great sea mammal sounds began to issue from them both: a groaning against the heavy pressure of the ocean, a squirty opening of mollusk shells, a slapping of wet flippers, an exhalation of salty and humid vapors, a blubberous explosion of moby dick.

He tasted the water, and while it was saltier than the small seas to the northwest, it was nowhere near as salty as the Salt Sea.

With its flow of fresh water disrupted, Florida Bay got saltier each season.

They would reach the salt-laden, deathly coast with naught but even saltier bread to eat, and little water to assuage their thirst.

The Atlantic, for instance, is saltier than the Pacific, and a good thing too.

Sabrino gorged himself on crumbly white cheese, almost preserved with salt and garlic, olives even saltier than the almonds, and breads with wheat and barley flour dusted with sesame seeds.

The queen had an interesting taste, quite unlike any other abdomen of her experience: more complex, saltier, even sweeter, by no means unpleasant.

The weight of twenty-eight hundred kilometers of water, nearly all of it far saltier than any Earth ocean, provides some eighty thousand atmospheres of pressure.

The drift of the organism was not rapid, and would presumably become less so as the low-salinity current weakened and grew saltier with changing latitude.

He had assumed it would be about at water level, since what had frozen at the ocean surface could hardly be sunk very far by hail landing on it and would presumably be melted from below by warmer and saltier water about as fast as the hail piled up above.

The giant central lake was warmer than bath water, saltier than the Atlantic, and filled with foul-tasting lungfish and coelacanths, plus crocodiles bigger than any bus.

This would keep the sea from getting any saltier and would also provide inland Southern California and Mexico with a convenient port for international shipping.