salty

  1. Adjective.  Tasting of salt.
  2. Adjective.  Containing salt.
  3. Adjective.  (figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
  4. Adjective.  (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
  5. Adjective.  (US, _) Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
  6. Adjective.  (linguistics) 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) instead of the Latin (term, lang la) .

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