Adjective

(en adjective)

That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.

* 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 147:

On the scintillating water yellow and blue boats bobbed up and down.

* 2012 , (The Economist), 13 Oct 2012, Obituary: Nguyen Chi Thien , citing (Nguyen Chi Thien)

They sank me into the ocean / Wishing me to remain in the depths. / I became a deep sea diver / And came up covered with scintillating pearls.

Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.

* 1864 , (Edgar Allen Poe),

Her sketches and tales may be said to be cleverly written. They are lively, easy, conventional, scintillating with a species of sarcastic wit, which might be termed good were it in any respect original.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 29, author=Ian Hughes, work=BBC

, title= Southampton 1-2 Man Utd , passage=The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up. }}

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 .