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Salty   /sˈɔlti/   Listen
Salty

adjective
1.
Engagingly stimulating or provocative.  Synonym: piquant.  "Salty language"
2.
Containing or filled with salt.
3.
One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water.






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"Salty" Quotes from Famous Books



... manage a second trip he was gratified to see that the spots he had "treated" were white and salty, like the bar in a battery. He gave them another dose and ...
— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... cropping eagerly at the soft grass and salty pigweed, suddenly raised his head and pricked up his ears. He had heard something and was listening, and looking across to the opposite bank I saw a sight that lifted me out of my sudden fit of depression and then ...
— "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific - 1901 • Louis Becke

... and corn, and dense groves of pine and oak and chestnut trees. Between us and the ocean were more waving fields of corn, broken by little clumps of trees, and beyond these damp Nile-green pasture meadows, and then salty marshes that led to the glistening, white sand-dunes, and the great silver semi-circle of foaming breakers, and the broad, blue sea. On all the land that lay between us and the ocean, where the town of Point Pleasant now stands, I think there were but four farmhouses, and ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... salty sweetness Of the strong wind and shattered spray; Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound Of the big surf ...
— Second April • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... has the lean of a bright pink and fine in the grain, while the fat is white and firm. If the lean is high colored, it probably has been over salted and is old besides, and in consequence will be hard and salty; while if there be yellow marks in the fat, and a curious, rather musty smell, it will have an unpleasant taste. In choosing a ham always run a clean knife or skewer in at the knuckle, and also at the center; if it comes out clean and smelling sweet, the ham is good; but if out of ...
— The Story of Crisco • Marion Harris Neil


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