Piquant vs Salty - What's the difference?
piquant | salty | Synonyms |
Engaging; charming.
Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
* 2000 , Lynn Bedford Hall, Best of Cooking in South Africa (page 2000)
* 2005 , Clifford A. Wright, Some like it hot: spicy favorites from the world's hot zones
* 2009 , Sara Engra, Katie Luber, Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices (page 9)
(archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.
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 .
As adjectives the difference between piquant and salty
is that piquant is engaging; charming while salty is tasting of salt.piquant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
- Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then...
- French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.
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.