Salty vs Kummelweck - What's the difference?
salty | kummelweck |
Tasting of salt.
Containing salt.
(figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, page 61:
* 1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life , Holloway House Publishing, page 162:
(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 .
A salty bread roll topped with caraway seeds and often served with thinly sliced roast beef, popular in western New York.
* 1962 , The Children's Hospital of Buffalo cook book
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 16, author=Karla Cook, title=The Food Connection, work=New York Times
, passage=Beef on weck, Mr. Stern said, is one of the great roast beef sandwiches in the country — very thinly sliced rare roast beef on a bulky hard roll, also called a kummelweck , topped with big-grained salt and caraway seeds. }}
As an adjective salty
is tasting of salt.As a noun kummelweck is
a kaiser roll sprinkled with koshering salt and caraway seeds.salty
English
Adjective
(er)- 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.
- I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.
Coordinate terms
* (irritated attitude) sassyDerived terms
* (experienced sailor) salty dogAnagrams
*kummelweck
English
Noun
(wikipedia kummelweck)- This is perfect for a large cocktail party served with small kummelweck rolls.
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