salty

adjective6

1. •
   Tasting of salt.
2. •
   Containing salt.
3. •
   (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter.

   • 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. — 1946
4. •
   (figurative) Coarse; provocative; earthy.

   • In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet. — 1962
5. •
   (figurative) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

   • There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches salty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now. — 2004
6. •
   Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).