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salty
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Word definitions for salty in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salty \Salt"y\, a. Somewhat salt; saltish.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...
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.