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Brackish

//ˈbɹækɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

    "...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious..."

  2. 2
    Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.

    "Therefore the bread he had to eat Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;"

  3. 3
    Repulsive
Adjective
  1. 1
    slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) wordnet
  2. 2
    distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture wordnet

Etymology

From Scottish brack (from Middle Dutch brac (“brackish”)) + -ish. Cognate with Dutch brak (“brackish”), German Low German brack, brakerg, brakig (“brackish”), German brackig (“brackish”), Danish brak (“brackish”), Swedish bräck (“brackish”), Norwegian brakk (“brackish”). Perhaps a distant doublet of brook.

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