Salty dog (slang)
Salty Dog is a nickname for an ornery Sailor or a U.S. Marine who has spent much of his or her life aboard a ship at sea. A Salty Dog is also called old salt or true grit.
 |
Look up salty dog in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
|
Look up Appendix:U.S. Navy slang in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
The phrase features prominently in Salty Dog Blues where it refers to the belief that applying salt to valuable hunting dogs would keep ticks away. In this context, a "salty dog" would be someone dear to the speaker's heart.
"Salty dog" also means ornery, as in the T-Bone Walker tune "Ain't Salty No More".
References
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.