saltyback
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Adjective edit
saltyback (comparative more saltyback, superlative most saltyback)
- (US slang, dated) Irritated, annoyed, soured.
- 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
- [Sparrow Saltskin:] All the good I done was to get Frankie saltyback at me.
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- "Salty", Green's Dictionary of Slang (via Oxford Reference)