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salé — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dirty adj Unclean or covered in dirt, grime, or other unpleasant matter.
  • manky adj Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
  • profane adjective Showing disrespect for sacred or religious things.
  • sale noun The act of exchanging goods or services for money.
  • salt noun A white crystalline substance used to season and preserve food, made mainly of sodium chloride.
  • salted adj Having had salt added, especially as a seasoning or preservative.
  • salty adj Tasting of or containing salt.
  • savory adj Having a rich, appetizing flavour that is salty or spicy rather than sweet.
  • slovenly adj Having an untidy appearance; unkempt.
  • soiled adjective Dirty or stained.

Senses

salé is used for these senses in English:

  • Salé A coastal city near Rabat in the region of Rabat-Salé-Kenitra, Morocco.
  • dirty Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
  • fescennine Obscene or scurrilous.
  • manky (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
  • profane Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
  • salt Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
  • salted To which salt has been added.
  • savory Salty and/or spicy, but not sweet.

dirty — full definition

  1. adj Unclean or covered in dirt, grime, or other unpleasant matter.
  2. adj Morally unclean, obscene, or indecent, especially in a sexual sense.
  3. adj Corrupt, dishonest, or breaking accepted rules.
  4. verb To make something dirty, or to stain someone's reputation.

manky — full definition

  1. adj Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
  2. adj Being or having bad weather.

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