Sarcastic vs Salty - What's the difference?
sarcastic | salty |
Containing sarcasm.
(of a person) Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.
* 1912 ,
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 sarcastic and salty
is that sarcastic is sarcastic while salty is tasting of salt.sarcastic
English
Alternative forms
* sarcastick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Her eyes slanted a little... and were sometimes full of fiery determination and sometimes dull and opaque. Her expression was never altogether amiable; was often, indeed, distinctly sullen, or, when she was animated, sarcastic .
Synonyms
* sarky (British) * snarkyDerived terms
* sarkySee also
* ironic * sardonic * snideReferences
* * * "sarcastic" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996) ----
salty
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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.
