blah vs salty

blah

adj
  • Dull; uninteresting; insipid. 

  • Low in spirit or health; down. 

verb
  • To utter idle, meaningless talk. 

noun
  • (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc. 

  • Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk. 

intj
  • An expression of mild frustration. 

  • Representing the sound of vomiting. 

  • Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant. 

salty

adj
  • Coarse; provocative; earthy. 

  • Tasting of salt. 

  • Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy. 

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

  • Containing salt. 

  • 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”). 

How often have the words blah and salty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )