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Salty vs Sweety - What's the difference?

salty | sweety |

As an adjective salty

is tasting of salt.

As a noun sweety is

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salty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • * 1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life , Holloway House Publishing, page 162:
    • I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.
  • (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 .

    • Coordinate terms

    * (irritated attitude) sassy

    Derived terms

    * (experienced sailor) salty dog

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    sweety

    English

    Noun

    (sweeties)
  • * 1976 , Henry A. Hawken, Trumpets of Glory , p158
    • Ses I, "My sweety , see how I'll fetch you down in less than no time."
  • * 1998 , Jed Diamond, Male Menopause , Sourcebooks, p269
  • *:"Yes, dear," he tells her. "You're right, dear. Of course, honey. I'll take care of everything, sweety ."
  • * 2003 , James Riordan, The Cello , Oxford University Press, p54
    • 'He's my sweety pie, my darling man, my honey pot. ...