saltine

English

Etymology

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

Noun

saltine (plural saltines)

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

Translations

salty cracker

• Finnish: voileipäkeksi
• German: Cracker (de) m
• Serbo-Croatian: kreker (sh)
• Spanish: galleta de soda f, galleta de agua f
• Swedish: salt kex n

Anagrams

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