besalted
/bɪˈsɑltɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1870 July 9, "Nature-development and Theology", Littell's Living Age, Vol. 106 (Vol. 18 of the fourth series), No. 1362, page 69, quoting The Contemporary Review. He could no more believe it than he could believe in petrified sea-shells or besalted “Edith, Lot's wife.”"
- "There they ate raw onions and allspice soused in vinegar and a caligot of eels so bepeppered and besalted that if applied as liniment it would have raised a blister on a rhinoceros."
- "Though desertlike at first glance, this landscape is, in fact, not deserted — and certainly not desertified, unlike its besalted, besotted counterparts downvalley."
Etymology
From be- + salt + -ed.