salty

1. (figuratively, of language) Coarse; provocative; earthy.Examples: "In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet."; "(In characteristically salty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.)"; "The court might have been tempted to construe the First Amendment as too momentous — too consequential — to vindicate a disappointed teenager’s salty outburst after being cut from the varsity cheer squad."figuratively

2. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).Examples: "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."; "Plus bits of business involving a salty Russian seafarer and overflying warplanes."figuratively

3. (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.Examples: "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."; "Misery can make you blame everybody else for your salty attitude. You think people just don't get where you're coming from. How can so many people be so stupid, you think. Well, your misery is very likely self-inflicted."slang

4. (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”).