Meanings (ES + gloss)
salado • salobre
Tasting of salt.
A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the protei…
salado
Containing salt.
At Zipaquirá, the salty ore is taken from the mine in chunks, then thrown into large tanks of water, where the salt is dissolved out. The resulting brine is drawn off into pipeline…
My job was to couple the dumpers, full or empty, then uncouple them at the main shaft, and to open and close the weather door on the trip to the roof galleries, where the salty ore…
atrevido • escabroso • picante • saleroso
Coarse; provocative; earthy.
(In characteristically salty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.)
In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet.
cabreado • enojado • picón • resentido
Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.
I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.
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.