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saltine

noun
/sɔlˈtin/US

Etymology

Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.

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

Definitions

  1. A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker

    A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.

  2. A euphemism for cracker ("white person").

The neighborhood

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