English Explanatory Dictionary

saltine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
  2. A euphemism for cracker ("white person").

Pronunciation

/sɔlˈtin/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-saltine.wav

Word forms

saltine saltines

Etymology

Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.

Translations

Finnish: voileipäkeksi French: craquelin French: biscuit soda German: Cracker Serbo-Croatian: kreker Spanish: galleta de soda Spanish: galleta de agua Spanish: saltina Swedish: salt kex
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