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===Adjective===
===Adjective===
{{en-adj|er}}


# Tasting of [[salt]].
# Tasting of [[salt]].
# Containing [[salt]].
# Containing [[salt]].
# {{lb|en|figuratively}} Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
# Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
# {{lb|en|figuratively}} Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; [[salty dog]] (from salt of the sea).
# Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; [[salty dog]] (from salt of the sea).
#* '''2004''', David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas''
#* '''2004''', David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas''
#*: 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.
# {{lb|en|US|_|slang}} [[irritated|Irritated]], [[annoyed]]; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
# [[irritated|Irritated]], [[annoyed]]; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
#* '''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:
#*: 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.
#* '''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:
#*: I want to beg your pardon for making you '''salty''' that night.
#*: I want to beg your pardon for making you '''salty''' that night.
# {{lb|en|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 {{m|la|ipse||self}} instead of the Latin {{m|la|ille||that}}.
# 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 .


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.