rowing vs salty

rowing

noun
  • The action of the verb to row. 

  • The action of propelling a boat with oars. 

  • The rowing of boats as a competitive sport. 

  • The act of having a row, or argument. 

salty

adj
  • Tasting of salt. 

  • Coarse; provocative; earthy. 

  • 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”). 

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