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Word entry · 5 letters

salty

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"Full of salt"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɒlti/Part of speech adjectiveSorted alstyStarts with SEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. containing or filled with salt

Word origin

From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • My job was to couple the dumpers, full or empty, then uncouple them at the main shaft, and to open and close the weather door on the trip to the roof galleries, where the salty ore was dynamited and broken down.
  • In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet.
  • (In characteristically salty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.)

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