Pretzel vs Salty - What's the difference?
pretzel | salty |
A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.
(North American) To bend, twist, or contort.
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.
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(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 a noun pretzel
is a toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.As a verb pretzel
is to bend, twist, or contort.As an adjective salty is
tasting of salt.pretzel
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
- They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.
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.