saltie

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A saltwater crocodile. Australia,informal
    — 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 Asian crocodile responsible for attacks on humans.
  2. An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway. Canada,US
    — 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.
  3. The saltwater fluke or dab.

词形变化

salties plural

词源

Etymology tree
English salt
English -ie
English saltie
From salt + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
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