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salty

/sawl-tee/US // ˈsɔl ti //UK // (ˈsɔːltɪ) //

咸的,咸味,咸咸的,咸味的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    salt·i·er, salt·i·est.

    • : tasting of or containing salt; saline.
    • : piquant; sharp; witty.
    • : racy or coarse: salty humor.
    • : of the sea, sailing, or life at sea: salty tales of adventure on the high seas.
    • : Slang. toughened by experience: proud and salty Marines.
    • : Slang. angry, upset, or hostile, especially due to embarrassment or failure:He gets all salty whenever he loses.

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Examples

  • The water molecules would be too few and far between for astronauts to use, and the extremely salty soil would poison life as we know it.

  • The result was at once sweet, spicy, crunchy and salty, and felt more like a main dish than a side.

  • After a couple of weeks without any added salt, you will notice how salty your food has been.

  • Their radicalization was right before our eyes, on social media and television, on bar stools and at our Thanksgiving tables, masquerading as politics and salty humor in memes, stickers and T-shirts.

  • Even though there was a ban on liquor, hundreds of taverns across the city covertly distributed alcohol and served free square, thin, salty bite-size slices of pizza to keep the guests drinking.

  • But what about the screams, the salty puddles, and big empty packages of frozen fish lying on the ground outside the fence?

  • The wind blew dry, salty air from the former seabed far to the south and east.

  • By the late 1990s the sea level dropped by 16 meters, leaving fishing boats and ships resting on the sandy and salty bottom.

  • The buttery, nutty, and sweet and salty all work together to form a balance of flavors.

  • The chicken, fried in impeccably fresh peanut oil, is enveloped in a salty skin that peels away in bacon-rich strips.

  • We cross over the bridges that span salty channels, oozy and redolent of ocean and sea-weed during the hours of ebb.

  • In mine and field and factory they had tasted the salty flavor of real things, and they built a school that has this flavor.

  • And how indispensable are the clear mountain streams to the sea, in pouring fresh water into its salty heart.

  • All these animals came to it in great numbers, and drank the waters, and ate great wads of the salty mud.

  • Very salty meats, or those much dried in smoking should be soaked overnight in cold water before boiling.