salty tooth

English

Etymology

By analogy with sweet tooth.

Pronunciation

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Noun

salty tooth (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic, only in singular, uncommon) A liking for foods that are salty.
   • 2011 October 11, Paula Deen and Melissa Clark, Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 318:

     If you're like me and you can't choose between your salty tooth and your sweet tooth, this one's for you.

   • 2015 October 19, Macaela MacKenzie, “Why Some People Have a Sweet Tooth and Others Crave Salty Foods”, in Women's Health‎^[1]:

     So what's behind that insatiable sweet or salty tooth? A lot of it is genetic.

   • 2018 October 24, Mark Binelli, “Salty Tooth”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     [See title]

Coordinate terms

• sour tooth
• sweet tooth
• spicy tooth