different between salty vs savor

English

Etymology

From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt +? -y.

Compare Saterland Frisian soaltich (“salty”), West Frisian sâltich (“salty”), Dutch zoutig (“salty”), German Low German soltig (“salty”), German salzig (“salty”).

(irritated, annoyed): From the sharp, spicy flavor of salt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l.ti/
• Rhymes: -?lti

Adjective

salty (comparative saltier, superlative saltiest)

1. Tasting of salt.
   • 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":

     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 proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.

2. Containing salt.
3. (figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
4. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
5. (US slang, dated) Irritated, annoyed
   • 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.

6. (Internet slang, derogatory) Indignant or offended due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat (implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears); said of interlocutors expressing indignation, or merely disagreement.
7. (linguistics) 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”).

Coordinate terms

• (irritated attitude): saltyback, sassy

Derived terms

• (experienced sailor): salty dog

Translations

Anagrams

• Styal, slaty

English

Etymology 1

Noun

savor (plural savors)

1. US standard spelling of savour.
   • 1900, New York (State) Legislature, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 774, syllabus of the department of public instruction:

     Taste gives knowledge of the savors of material things. Touch gives knowledge of form, smoothness, roughness, hardness, softness, pressure, temperature. Hearing gives knowledge of sound and distinguishes noises, musical tones, [...]

Etymology 2

Verb

savor (third-person singular simple present savors, present participle savoring, simple past and past participle savored)

1. US standard spelling of savour.
   • 1915, John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs:

     An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me. I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena ...

Anagrams

• 'sarvo, VAROs, Voras, arvos, sarvo

Ido

Verb

savor

1. future infinitive of savar

Old French

Noun

savor f (oblique plural savors, nominative singular savor, nominative plural savors)

1. Alternative form of savour