Salty vs Shady - What's the difference?
salty | shady |
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 .
Abounding in shades.
Causing shade.
* Bible, Job xl. 22
Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
* Francis Bacon
(informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.
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(UK, slang) Mean, cruel.
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As adjectives the difference between salty and shady
is that salty is tasting of salt while shady is abounding in shades.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
*shady
English
Adjective
(er)- The shady trees cover him with their shadow.
- Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter.
- He is a shady character.
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- Jon & Kate Plus 8'' is a show based on two facts: 1)''' Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and '''2)''' the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a ' shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
- ''Don't be shady , give us a go.