Definition of "salty" in English

adjective

1. Tasting of salt.

2. Containing salt.

3. (figuratively, of language) Coarse; provocative; earthy.

4. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

5. (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.

6. (linguistics) Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).