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===Adjective=== |
===Adjective=== |
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# Tasting of [[salt]]. |
# Tasting of [[salt]]. |
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# Containing [[salt]]. |
# Containing [[salt]]. |
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# Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language. |
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# Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; [[salty dog]] (from salt of the sea). |
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#* '''2004''', David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas'' |
#* '''2004''', David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas'' |
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#*: There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches '''salty''' boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now. |
#*: There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches '''salty''' boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now. |
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# [[irritated|Irritated]], [[annoyed]]; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt. |
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#* '''1946''', Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, ''Really the Blues'', Payback Press 1999, page 61: |
#* '''1946''', Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, ''Really the Blues'', Payback Press 1999, page 61: |
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#*: Ray and Fuzzy were '''salty''' with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers. |
#*: Ray and Fuzzy were '''salty''' with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers. |
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#* '''1969''', Iceberg Slim, ''Pimp: The Story of My Life'', Holloway House Publishing, page 162: |
#* '''1969''', Iceberg Slim, ''Pimp: The Story of My Life'', Holloway House Publishing, page 162: |
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#*: I want to beg your pardon for making you '''salty''' that night. |
#*: I want to beg your pardon for making you '''salty''' that night. |
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# 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 instead of the Latin . |
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I'll take "experience", though I'm not claiming to be a former, current nor future service-member. I might have to wait before responding to the content of this. |
I'll take "experience", though I'm not claiming to be a former, current nor future service-member. I might have to wait before responding to the content of this. |