One of the mutant Japanese-English (Japlish)
words that works well enough to make its stately entrance to the language at large. Further, it fills a hole that needs to be gooped up, as there is a strong design current that nothing else, well, quite targets so sweetly. "Melty" describes objects with
soft corners, sagging curves: imagine taking a
buck-ugly 1970s
GM product and subjecting it to about a thousand degrees Celsius for just long enough for the
metal bits to start to lose their
hard edges (forget about visualizing the glass, plastic and rubber please).
Contemporary audio equipment design. Some cameras. Nova-deco architorture. All "melty" in their own way.
Name comes from an unspeakably icky Nipponese chocolate bar.
Those new Porsches have gone all
hard-edged on us. I used to really
like those '50s melty ones.
He bought him a ghetto
blaster, one of those expensive ones with the melty look, all rounded out.