salty

5 definitions • 9 examples

tasting of salt or containing a lot of salt:

This bacon is too salty for me.

I love peanuts and other salty snacks.

annoyed or upset, especially when this is unreasonable:

I don't know why she's acting salty.

He got salty with me because I wouldn't go out with him.

critical in a slightly funny way:

She shocks students and colleagues with her salty wit.

not polite and using swear words (= rude and offensive words):

He admits that there's more public swearing now but maintains that salty language is nothing new.

My advice would be not to tell salty jokes in a wedding speech.

tasting or smelling like salt:

salty popcorn

salty sea air