saltie

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saltie

Rhymes with -ɒlti

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From salt + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

noun salties

Australia, informal A saltwater crocodile. 1998, Romulus Whitaker, Zai Whitaker, Crocodile Fever: Wildlife Adventures in New Guinea, Orient Longman, India, page 8, ‘Salties’ typically live in and around the coastal mangroves but are not uncommon hundreds of kilometres inland. A saltie grows to around seven metres in length and is the main As
Canada, US An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway. Ah, but when will the first oceangoing boat arrive [in Duluth, Minnesota]? . . . In 2015, the first saltie to arrive was the Malta-flagged Kom, which arrived April 13 with a Bulgarian crew to load durum wheat headed for Italy.
The saltwater fluke or dab.

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@misc{saltie_2026,
  title = {saltie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/saltie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}