Trenchant vs Salty - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
*1663 ,
*:The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
(figuratively) Keen]]; [[bite, biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe; as, trenchant wit.
*1899 ,
*:His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.
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 .
Trenchant is a related term of salty.
In figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between trenchant and salty
is that trenchant is (figuratively) keen]]; [[bite|biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe; as, trenchant wit while salty is (figuratively) experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).As adjectives the difference between trenchant and salty
is that trenchant is (obsolete) fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp while salty is tasting of salt.trenchant
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Alternative forms
* trenchaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)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.