Briny vs. Salty

Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.

(slang) The sea.

Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

any very large body of (salt) water

slightly salty;

Example: ‘a brackish lagoon’; ‘the briny deep’;

Tasting of salt.

Containing salt.

(figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.

(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

Irritated, annoyed (from the sharp, spicy flavor of salt).

Indignant or offended due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, or defeat (implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears); said of interlocutors expressing indignation, or merely disagreement.

(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 self instead of the Latin that.

Somewhat salt; saltish.

engagingly stimulating or provocative;

Example: ‘a piquant wit’; ‘salty language’;

containing salt;

Example: ‘a saline solution’; ‘salty tears’;

one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water