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saltie

noun

Etymology

From salt + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

  1. inherited from *sḗh₂l✻ — “salt”
  2. inherited from *saltą✻
  3. inherited from *salt✻
  4. inherited from sealt
  5. inherited from salt
  6. suffixed as saltie — “salt + ie”

Definitions

  1. A saltwater crocodile.

    • They like to spend their time in freshwater rivers in coastal waters. Saltwater crocodiles are fiercely territorial and fully mature male salties force younger and smaller salties into the ocean where they have to search for river systems.
    • It is feared by those who live near it. For its part, the saltie fears nothing — except a larger crocodile.

  2. An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

    • Ah, but when will the first oceangoing boat arrive [in Duluth, Minnesota]? . . . In 2015, the first saltie to arrive was the Malta-flagged Kom, which arrived April 13 with a Bulgarian crew to load durum wheat headed for Italy.

  3. The saltwater fluke or dab.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for saltie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA