salty
OTHER WORDS FROM salty
saltĀ·iĀ·ly, adverbsaltĀ·iĀ·ness, nounoĀ·verĀ·saltĀ·y, adjectiveunĀ·saltĀ·y, adjectiveWords nearby salty
ABOUT THIS WORD
What else does salty mean?
Where does salty come from?
The term salty has a long history of slang meanings, probably because of its association with sailors. In the 1860s, salty was a synonym for āracyā or āvulgar,ā also a likely connection to (the popular reputation of) sailors.
By the 1920sā30s, salty is recorded in Black English as jump salty, meaning to become suddenly angry. The phrase jump salty stuck around well into the 1960s.
Owing in part to the influence of Black English on popular culture, salty has spread in the mainstream vernacular as a slang term for ābitterā and āupset,ā e.g., He was salty I didnāt invite him to the party.
How is salty used in real life?
People who use the slang version of salty often use it to describe someone who is bitter or reacting sourly (emotions love taste metaphors) to something that made them upsetāsay, losing in a video game. And speaking of losing, slang terms or expressions that have a similar sense to salty include sore loser and butthurt.
Meghan McCain is just salty about Obama because somewhere in a closet she has a "first daughter" tiara that because of him she never got to wear it in public https://t.co/Bjv8kB0CtV
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 19, 2020
Donāt be salty with the results you didnāt get from the work you didnāt do
— 7 STREAMS OF INCOME (@aveclassse) May 12, 2020
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