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Definition of salty :
Somewhat salt; saltish.
Synonyms:
pungent, engaging, suggestive, pert, brackish, zingy, piquant, chocolatey, bawdy, blue, well-flavored, off-color, chocolate, hilarious, highly flavored, comic, well-seasoned, comical, acrid, cheesy, humorous, alkaline, zesty, salt, amusing, scabrous, savoury, gamey, decent, racy, lewd, hysterical, saline, floury, flowery, playful, provocative, off, funny, briny, wry, gamy, risqué, chalky, fishy, stimulating, ribald, priceless, flavored, fruity, tasteful, poignant, buttery
tasty (part of speech: adjective)
delicious, tasty, luscious, sour, palatable, peppery, toothsome, spicy, savory, sweet, delectable, flavorful, good
vulgar (part of speech: adjective)
earthy, crude, scandalous, philistine, cheap, degraded, low, gaudy, common, depraved, barnyard, rude, gross, unpolished, tactless, sordid, repulsive, inelegant, homespun, animal, offensive, colloquial, sleazy, unbecoming, base, profane, boorish, ignoble, undignified, rough, cockney, raw, rank, crass, glaring, tasteless, coarse, indelicate, ignominious, tawdry, unrefined, barbaric, brazen, shameless, graceless, clumsy, unseemly, in bad taste, ill-bred, chintzy, coarse-grained, revolting, outlandish, brutish, obscene, vulgar, idiomatic, garish, broad
Usage examples:
- Hammers beat in the builders' yards; wild bargees sang hoarsely as they drifted down to the Isle of Dogs; and in slow ships that crept away to catch the wind in the open stream below, with tawny sails drooping and rimmed with frost, they heard the hail of salty mariners. - "Master Skylark", John Bennett.
- There is no bank of violets stealing and giving half so sweet an odor to my nostrils, outraged by a winter of city smells, as the salty, spray- laden breath of the marsh. - "Roof and Meadow", Dallas Lore Sharp.
- It was salty, but not like the ocean. - "The Flying Stingaree", Harold Leland Goodwin.