melty

English

Etymology

From melt +‎ -y.

Adjective

melty (comparative meltier, superlative meltiest)

  1. Having a high tendency to melt.
    • 2008, Linda Larsen, The $7 a Meal Slow Cooker Cookbook:
      This creamy, melty cheese dip is delicious with crisp fresh vegetables.
    • 2014 August 23, Deb Amlen, “Second Shift”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      I must say that the meltiest, most evocative entry in this theme set is BRA OF CHOCOLATE, which, of course, started out as a bar of chocolate until Mr. Berry and the made up “Victoria’s Sweetness catalog” got hold of it.
    • 2024 January 27, The New York Times Cooking, “Chips as Chicken and Wings as Dip”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      If you’ve ever eaten Buffalo chicken wings and thought, “These are so good, I just wish they were meltier and cheesier so I could scoop them up with tortilla chips,” here’s Ali’s Buffalo chicken dip.
  2. In the state of being melted.
    • 1991 April 14, Barbara Gilford, “DANCE; Capturing the Beauty In Ballet of Goddesses”, in The New York Times‎[3]:
      "Melt," Ms. Martinet directed Ms. Velko, as the young dancer assumed a deep arabesque. "This is really the meltiest of them all."
    • 2020, Jenna Barnard, Butternut Bakery:
      Let the cookies cool for about 20 minutes before eating. They’re best when they’re slightly warm and the chocolate chips are still melty. Enjoy!

Derived terms

Noun

melty (countable and uncountable, plural melties)

  1. (Internet slang) meltdown
    • 2023 July 12, MKUltraMoney, Twitter‎[4], archived from the original on 24 January 2026:
      From being considered one of the funniest users during early Twitter, to having a show that flopped ridiculously hard, to no longer being funny whatsoever, to having a melty about Twitter blue using a blocklist to block ALL blue subs
    • 2023 September 11, MotorolaCRO, “IS 3 Br needs to be 7.3/7.7 at least”, in War Thunder - official forum‎[5], archived from the original on 24 January 2026:
      Dude literally having a melty over a tank that has 23s reload
    • 2025 February 7, bvtm_tnd, Twitter‎[6], archived from the original on 24 January 2026:
      melty on main!
    • 2025 April 18, Silent-Abroad-, “Bro, those shadps4 moderators are a bit crazy, aren't they??”, in Reddit‎[7], archived from the original on 24 January 2026:
      uh oh, melty!
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