saltine

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔlˈtin/, /sɑlˈtin/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

saltine (plural saltines)

2. (Canada, US) A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
4. (Canada, US, ethnic slur) A euphemism for cracker ("white person").

Translations

salty cracker

• Finnish: voileipäkeksi (fi)
• French: craquelin (fr) m, biscuit soda (fr) m (Quebec)
• German: Cracker (de) m
• Italian: cracker (it) m
• Serbo-Croatian: kreker (sh)
• Spanish: galleta de soda f, galleta de agua f, saltina f (Andes)
• Swedish: salt kex n

Anagrams

• tenails, Stelian, nailest, elastin, stealin', salient, tselina, alestin, Latines, staniel, entails, nail set, nailset